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
"Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with 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, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
Psalm 143:2
Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
Luke 10:29
But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?"
Luke 16:15
He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is 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 language of the crafty.
Job 34:35
'Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.'
Job 35:16
Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge."
Proverbs 10:19
In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.
Isaiah 6:5
Then I said, "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 tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
James 3:2
For in many things we all stumble. If anyone does not stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the 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 one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
Philippians 3:12
Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

It shall

Job 33:8
"Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,
Proverbs 17:20
One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.
1 Timothy 6:5
constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.