Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Who can say, “I have cleansed my heart,
I am pure from my sin”?

King James Version

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Holman Bible

Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure;
I am cleansed from my sin”?

International Standard Version

Who can say, "My intentions are pure; I am clean from any sin?"

A Conservative Version

Who can say, I have made my heart clean. I am pure from my sin?

American Standard Version

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Amplified


Who can say, “I have cleansed my heart,
I am pure from my sin?”

Bible in Basic English

Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?

Darby Translation

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Julia Smith Translation

Who shall say, I cleansed my heart; I was pure from my sin?

King James 2000

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Who will say "I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?

Modern King James verseion

Who can say, I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Who can say, "My heart is clean, I am innocent from sin"?

NET Bible

Who can say, "I have kept my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?

New Heart English Bible

Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

The Emphasized Bible

Who can say, I have cleansed my heart, I am pure from my sin?

Webster

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

World English Bible

Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

Youngs Literal Translation

Who saith, 'I have purified my heart, I have been cleansed from my sin?'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
זכה 
Zakah 
Usage: 8

I am pure
טהר 
Taher 
Usage: 94

Devotionals

Devotionals about Proverbs 20:9

References

Images Proverbs 20:9

Prayers for Proverbs 20:9

Context Readings

Foolproof Instructions

8 When a king sits on the throne of judgment he scatters away evil with his eyes. 9 Who can say, “I have cleansed my heart,
I am pure from my sin”?
10 Differing weights and differing measures, both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:46

They may sin against you, for everyone sins. You may become angry with them and hand them over to an enemy far or near who takes them to another country as captives.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

There is no man on earth who is righteous and does not sin.

2 Chronicles 6:36

They may sin against you. There is no man who is without sin. You may become angry with them and hand them over to an enemy who takes them to another country as captives, whether it is far or near.

Job 14:4

Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!

Job 15:14

What is man, that he could be pure? Or he who is born of woman, that he could be righteous?

Job 25:4

How then can a man be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Psalm 51:5

Indeed, I was born in perversity (mischief) (evil). I was a sinner when my mother conceived me.

1 Corinthians 4:4

I know nothing against myself. Yet this does not acquit me, but he that judges me is God.

James 3:2

We all stumble in many things. If any do not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able to restrain (control) the whole body.

1 John 1:8-10

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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