Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; 1 I am clean from my sin”? 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
In Context
10Differing weights and unequal measures— 1 Yahweh hates them both. 1
Cross References
1 Kings 8:46Suppose that they sin against you, since there is no one who does not sin, and suppose that you are angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, so that the enemy takes them away captive to their land, whether distant or near.
Job 14:4Who can bring something clean out of something unclean? No one. 1
Job 25:4How then can man be righteous with God? 1 How can he who is born of a woman be clean, acceptable to him? 1
Ecclesiastes 7:20There is not a righteous man on earth 2 who does good and never sins. 1
James 3:2For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in words, he is a perfect man, able to control even 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 →