Proverbs 20:9
Who can claim, “I've made sure my conscience is clean; I've purified myself from sin”?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
In Context
8When a king sits in judgment he recognizes all that isn't right.
10The Lord hates both dishonest weights and dishonest measures.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:46If they sin against you—and there is nobody who does not sin—you may become angry with them and hand them over to an enemy who takes them away as prisoners to a foreign land, near or far away.
Job 14:4Who can bring something clean of what is unclean? No one.
Job 25:4How can a human being be right before God? Can anyone born of woman be pure?
Ecclesiastes 7:20There's not one good person in all the world who always does what is right and never sins.
James 3:2All of us make mistakes in many ways. Anyone who doesn't make mistakes in what they say is truly a good person who can keep the whole body under 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 →