Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

Bible References

Proclaim

Proverbs 25:14
Clouds and wind without rain, [is] he who boasts himself of his gifts falsely.
Proverbs 27:2
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth, a stranger, and not thine own lips.
Matthew 6:2
When therefore thou do charity, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.
Luke 18:8
I say to you, that he will do their vengeance speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, will he then find faith on the earth?
Luke 22:33
And he said to him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee both to prison and to death.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have become foolish, boasting. Ye compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I came short in nothing of those, superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.

But

Psalm 12:1
Help, LORD, for the holy man ceases, for the faithful fail from among the sons of men.
Ecclesiastes 7:28
which my soul still seeks, but I have not found: among a thousand I have found one man, but among all those I have not found a woman.
Jeremiah 5:1
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places if it, if ye can find a man, if there is any who does justly, who seeks truth, and I will pardon her.
Micah 7:2
The devout man has perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men. They all lay in wait for blood. They hunt every man his brother with a net.
Luke 18:8
I say to you, that he will do their vengeance speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, will he then find faith on the earth?
John 1:47
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says about him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit.