Proverbs 20:9
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.
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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”?
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- Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
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- Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin”?
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- Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
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- Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
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- Who can say, “I have made clean my heart; I have been cleansed from my sin?
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- Hvem kan si: Jeg har renset mitt hjerte, jeg er fri for min synd?
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- Hvem kan si: Jeg har renset mitt hjerte, jeg er fri for min synd?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ecclesiastes 7:20
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Read in context1 John 1:8–10
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Read in context1 Kings 8:46
If 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;
Read in contextJob 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Read in contextJob 15:14
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Read in contextJames 3:2
For 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.
Read in contextJob 25:4
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Read in context1 Corinthians 4:4
For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
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