Who can say, “I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin”?
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near,
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.
How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far or near,
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