Job 9:20
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
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Job 9:20
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
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Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
Deuteronomy 18:13
Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
Job 1:8
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
Job 2:3
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
Job 42:8
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
Psalms 37:37
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
Matthew 5:48
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Luke 13:5
I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Philippians 3:13
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
Philippians 3:14
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:15
Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
1 Peter 5:10
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
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Genesis 38:26
And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
Job 9:16
If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
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Exodus 20:7
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Job 7:20
I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
Job 9:28
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
Job 16:8
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
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Job 7:13
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
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Job 7:14
Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
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Job 10:6
That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
Job 13:27
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
Job 14:16
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
Job 33:8
Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying,
Job 33:10
Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,
Job 33:11
He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
Job 33:12
Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.
Proverbs 17:20
He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
1 Timothy 6:5
Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
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Job 19:25
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
Job 19:26
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
Job 19:27
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
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Job 4:17
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Job 15:15
Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
Job 15:16
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
Job 22:3
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
Job 25:5
Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
Job 25:6
How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
Psalms 19:12
Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Isaiah 6:5
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
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Job 1:22
In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
Job 9:33
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
Job 10:2
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Job 23:3
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
Job 23:5
I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
Job 23:6
Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
Job 23:7
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
Job 31:35
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
Job 31:36
Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
Job 31:37
I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
Job 34:14
If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
Job 40:7
Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Job 40:8
Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
Isaiah 57:15
For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Romans 9:20
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
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Job 9:24
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
Job 11:4
For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
Job 11:6
And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.
Job 16:17
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
Job 23:9
On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
Job 23:11
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
Job 27:5
God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
Job 27:6
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Job 31:14
What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
Job 32:1
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Job 32:2
Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
Job 34:6
Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
Job 34:9
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
Luke 18:14
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
2 Corinthians 1:12
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
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Job 34:15
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
Job 40:2
Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
Isaiah 57:16
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
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Psalms 76:7
Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?
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Psalms 51:7
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Psalms 119:96
I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.
Isaiah 64:5
Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
Isaiah 64:6
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Jeremiah 2:22
For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
Luke 17:10
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
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Job 15:5
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
Job 34:35
Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.
Job 35:16
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Proverbs 10:19
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Matthew 12:36
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
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Matthew 26:65
Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.
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John 8:7
So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
John 8:8
And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
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Isaiah 45:25
In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
Romans 3:21
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
Romans 3:22
Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
Romans 3:23
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Romans 3:24
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Romans 4:2
For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
Romans 4:5
But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Romans 5:1
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Romans 8:34
Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Galatians 2:16
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
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Job 23:10
But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Isaiah 43:26
Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
1 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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Proverbs 27:2
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
2 Corinthians 10:18
For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
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James 2:21
Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
James 2:22
Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
James 2:23
And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
James 2:24
Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
James 2:25
Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
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