Proverbs 20:9
Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
In Context
8A king on the seat of judging puts to flight all evil with his eyes.
10Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:46If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away as prisoners into a strange land, far off or near;
Job 14:4If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.
Job 25:4How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?
Ecclesiastes 7:20There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.
James 3:2For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:9
8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes. Here is, 1. The character of a good governor: He is a king that deserves to be called so who sits in the throne, not as a throne of honour, to take his ease, and take state upon him, and oblige men to keep their distance, but as a throne of judgment, that he may do justice, give redress to the injured and punish the injurious, who makes his business his delight and loves no pleasure comparably to it, who does not devolve the… Read the whole commentary →