KJV King James Version
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
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Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”?
WEB World English Bible
Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”
ASV American Standard Version
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Who saith, ‘I have purified my heart, I have been cleansed from my sin?’
Surrounding context — Proverbs 20
6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
7 The just [man] walketh in his integrity: his children [are] blessed after him.
8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
10 Divers weights, [and] divers measures, both of them [are] alike abomination to the LORD.
11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work [be] pure, and whether [it be] right.
12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
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Ecclesiastes 7:20For [there is] not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.1 John 1:8-10If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.1 Kings 8:46If they sin against thee, (for [there is] no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;Job 14:4Who can bring a clean [thing] out of an unclean? not one.Job 15:14What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous?1 Corinthians 4:4For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.Job 25:4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean [that is] born of a woman?James 3:2For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same [is] a perfect man, [and] able also to bridle the whole body.Psalm 51:5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.2 Chronicles 6:36If they sin against thee, (for [there is] no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before [their] enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;
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