Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, "I have made my heart pure.I am clean and without sin?"
New Heart English 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 the throne of judgmentscatters away all evil with his eyes.
10Differing weights and differing measures,both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:46If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;
Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?Not one.
Job 25:4How then can man be just with God?Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.
James 3:2For in many things we all stumble. If anyone does not stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.
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 →