Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Webster 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 that sitteth on the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
10Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:46If they shall sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou shalt be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives to the land of the enemy, far or near;
Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Job 25:4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Ecclesiastes 7:20For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
James 3:2For in many things we all offend. If any man offendeth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able also to bridle the 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 →