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
It shall
Bible References
Justify
Job 9:2
"Truly I know that [it is] so, but how can a human being be just before God?
Job 4:17
'Can a human being be more righteous than God, or can a man be more pure than his Maker?
Job 32:1
Then these three men ceased from answering Job because he [was] righteous in his [own] eyes.
Psalm 130:3
If you, O Yah, should {keep track of} iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
Psalm 143:2
And do not enter into judgment with your servant, because no one alive [is] righteous before you.
Luke 10:29
But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"
Luke 16:15
And he said to them, "You are the ones who justify themselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts! For [what is] [considered] exalted among men [is] an abomination in the sight of God.
Mine
Job 15:5
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose [the] tongue of [the] crafty.
Job 34:35
'Job speaks without knowledge, and his words [are] without insight.
Job 35:16
{therefore} Job opens his mouth in empty talk-- without knowledge he multiplies words."
Proverbs 10:19
In many words, transgression is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is prudent.
Isaiah 6:5
And I said, "Woe to me! For I am destroyed! For I [am] a man {of unclean lips}, and I [am] living among a people {of unclean lips}, for my eyes have seen the king, Yahweh of hosts!"
Matthew 12:36
But I tell you that every worthless word that they speak, people will give an account for it on the day of judgment!
James 3:2
For we all stumble [in] many [ways]. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he [is] a perfect individual, able to hold in check his whole body also.
I am perfect
Job 1:1
[There] was a man in the land of Uz whose name [was] Job. That man was blameless and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil.
Philippians 3:12
Not that I have already received [this], or [have] already been made perfect, but I press on if indeed I may lay hold of [that] for which also I was laid hold of by Christ.
It shall
Job 33:8
"Surely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard [the] sound of [your] words:
Proverbs 17:20
He who is crooked of heart will not find goodness, and he who is perverse, by his tongue he will fall into calamity.
1 Timothy 6:5
constant wrangling by people of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who consider godliness to be a means of gain.