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

Luke 10:29
But he, wishing to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor?
Luke 16:15
And he said to them, You are they that justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts; for that which is high among men is an abomination before God.

Mine

Matthew 12:36
But I tell you, that for every idle word which men speak they shall render an account in a day of judgment;
James 3:2
For in many things we all offend; if one offends not in word he is a perfect man, able to keep in subjection also the whole body.

I am perfect

Philippians 3:12
Not that I have already obtained it, or have been already made perfect; but I follow on that I may attain that for which also I was arrested by Christ.

It shall

1 Timothy 6:5
and wranglings of men of unsound judgments and destitute of the truth, supposing that piety is gain.