Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

I am perfect

Bible References

Justify

Job 9:2
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just before God?
Job 4:17
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Job 32:1
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Psalm 130:3
If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
Psalm 143:2
And enter not into judgment with your servant: for in your sight shall no man living be justified.
Luke 10:29
But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbor?
Luke 16:15
And he said unto them, You are they who justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

Mine

Job 15:5
For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Job 34:35
Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.
Job 35:16
Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.
Proverbs 10:19
In the multitude of words there lacks not sin: but he that refrains his lips is wise.
Isaiah 6:5
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Matthew 12:36
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
James 3:2
For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

I am perfect

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one that feared God, and turned away from evil.
Philippians 3:12
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if indeed I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

It shall

Job 33:8
Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of your words, saying,
Proverbs 17:20
He that has a crooked heart finds no good: and he that has a perverse tongue falls into calamity.
1 Timothy 6:5
Perverse wranglings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw yourself.