Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?
What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
“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,
keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
“Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God? If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
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