Psalms 143:2
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
In Context
1O LORD, hear my prayer. In Your faithfulness, give ear to my plea; in Your righteousness, answer me.
Cross References
Exodus 34:7maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”
Job 4:17‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
Job 14:3Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
Galatians 2:16know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 143:2-7
Complaints and Petitions. 1 Hear my prayer, O Lord , give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness. 2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead. 4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. 5 I remember the days of old; I meditate… Read the whole commentary →