Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
In Context
8A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.
10Differing weights and unequal measures—both are detestable to the LORD.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:46When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to his own land, whether far or near,
Job 14:4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
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.
James 3:2We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole body.
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 →