Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

A generation -- pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.

New American Standard Bible

There is a kind who is pure in his own eyes,
Yet is not washed from his filthiness.

King James Version

There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

Holman Bible

There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes,
yet is not washed from its filth.

International Standard Version

Some people view themselves as pure, but haven't been cleansed from their own filth.

A Conservative Version

There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes, and [yet] are not washed from their filthiness.

American Standard Version

There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, And yet are not washed from their filthiness.

Amplified


There is a generation (class of people) that is pure in its own eyes,
Yet is not washed from its filthiness.

Bible in Basic English

There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.

Darby Translation

there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness;

Julia Smith Translation

A generation pure in its eyes, and not washed from its finding.

King James 2000

There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[There is] a generation [that is] pure in its own eyes, but from its filthiness it will not be cleansed.

Modern King James verseion

There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their own filth.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The generation that think themselves clean, shall not be cleansed from their filthiness.

NET Bible

There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not washed from their filthiness.

New Heart English Bible

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

The Emphasized Bible

A generation! Pure in its own eyes, yet, from its filth, hath it not been bathed,

Webster

There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.

World English Bible

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
דּר דּור 
Dowr 
Usage: 167

טהר טהור 
Tahowr 
Usage: 95

and yet is not washed
רחץ 
Rachats 
Usage: 72

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Four Kinds Of People

11 A generation is, that lightly esteemeth their father, And their mother doth not bless. 12 A generation -- pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed. 13 A generation -- how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up.

Cross References

Luke 18:11

the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;

Proverbs 16:2

All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, And Jehovah is pondering the spirits.

Isaiah 65:5

Who are saying, 'Keep to thyself, come not nigh to me, For I have declared thee unholy.' These are a smoke in Mine anger, A fire burning all the day.

Jeremiah 2:35

And thou sayest, 'Because I have been innocent, Surely turned back hath His anger from me?' Lo, I have been judged with thee, Because of thy saying, 'I have not sinned.'

Titus 1:15-16

all things, indeed, are pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast is nothing pure, but of them defiled are even the mind and the conscience;

Judges 17:5

As to the man Micah, he hath a house of gods, and he maketh an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrateth the hand of one of his sons, and he is to him for a priest;

Judges 17:13

and Micah saith, 'Now I have known that Jehovah doth good to me, for the Levite hath been to me for a priest.'

1 Samuel 15:13-14

And Samuel cometh in unto Saul, and Saul saith to him, 'Blessed art thou of Jehovah; I have performed the word of Jehovah.'

Job 33:9

Pure am I, without transgression, Innocent am I, and I have no iniquity.

Psalm 36:2

For he made it smooth to himself in his eyes, To find his iniquity to be hated.

Psalm 51:2

Thoroughly wash me from mine iniquity, And from my sin cleanse me,

Psalm 51:7

Thou cleansest me with hyssop and I am clean, Washest me, and than snow I am whiter.

Proverbs 21:2

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, And Jehovah is pondering hearts.

Isaiah 1:16

Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.

Jeremiah 2:22-24

But though thou dost wash with nitre, And dost multiply to thyself soap, Marked is thine iniquity before Me, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

Jeremiah 4:14

Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?

Ezekiel 36:25

And I have sprinkled over you clean water, And ye have been clean; From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you.

Zechariah 13:1

In that day there is a fountain opened To the house of David And to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, For sin and for impurity.

Luke 11:39-40

And the Lord said unto him, 'Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness;

Luke 16:15

and he said to them, 'Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, is abomination before God;

1 Corinthians 6:11

And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

2 Timothy 3:5

having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,

Titus 3:5

(not by works that are in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,

1 John 1:7-10

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,

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