Job 9:20
Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
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Job 9:20
Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
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Genesis 6:9
This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
Deuteronomy 18:13
You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God.
Job 1:8
Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”
Job 2:3
Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”
Job 42:8
Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls 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 I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”
Psalms 37:37
Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
Matthew 5:48
Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
Luke 13:5
I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”
Philippians 3:13
Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before,
Philippians 3:14
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:15
Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.
1 Peter 5:10
But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
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Genesis 38:26
Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.” He knew her again no more.
Job 9:16
If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.
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Exodus 20:7
“You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.
Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
Job 7:20
If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?
Job 9:28
I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.
Job 16:8
You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.
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Job 7:13
When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint,’
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Job 7:14
then you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions,
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Job 10:6
that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?
Job 13:27
You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
Job 14:16
But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?
Job 33:8
“Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,
Job 33:10
Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.
Job 33:11
He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’
Job 33:12
“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.
Proverbs 17:20
One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.
1 Timothy 6:5
constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.
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Job 19:25
But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
Job 19:26
After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,
Job 19:27
whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is 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 puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
Job 15:16
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
Job 22:3
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?
Job 25:5
Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;
Job 25:6
How much less man, who is a worm, and the son of man, who is a worm!”
Psalms 19:12
Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”
Isaiah 6:5
Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”
Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has 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 didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.
Job 9:33
There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.
Job 10:2
I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend 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 tell me.
Job 23:6
Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.
Job 23:7
There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.
Job 31:35
oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!
Job 31:36
Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, and I would bind it to me as a crown.
Job 31:37
I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him like a prince.
Job 34:14
If he set his heart on himself, if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,
Job 40:7
“Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me.
Job 40:8
Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
Isaiah 57:15
For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Romans 9:20
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
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Job 9:24
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
Job 11:4
For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’
Job 11:6
that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.
Job 16:17
although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Job 23:9
He works to the north, but I can’t see him. He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse of him.
Job 23:11
My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.
Job 27:5
Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
Job 27:6
I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.
Job 31:14
what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will 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 the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.
Job 34:6
Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’
Job 34:9
For he has said, ‘It profits 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 everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
2 Corinthians 1:12
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
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Job 34:15
all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.
Job 40:2
“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
Isaiah 57:16
For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.
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Psalms 76:7
You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?
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Psalms 51:7
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
Psalms 119:96
I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless.
Isaiah 64:5
You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved?
Isaiah 64:6
For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Jeremiah 2:22
For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
Luke 17:10
Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’ ”
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Job 15:5
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
Job 34:35
‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.’
Job 35:16
therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”
Proverbs 10:19
In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.
Matthew 12:36
I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
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Matthew 26:65
Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.
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John 8:7
But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.”
John 8:8
Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.
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Isaiah 45:25
All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh, and will rejoice!
Romans 3:21
But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;
Romans 3:22
even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
Romans 3:23
for all have sinned, and fall 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 was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
Romans 4:5
But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
Romans 5:1
Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
Romans 8:34
Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
Galatians 2:16
yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
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Job 23:10
But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.
Isaiah 43:26
Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.
1 Corinthians 4:4
For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
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Proverbs 27:2
Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
2 Corinthians 10:18
For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
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James 2:21
Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
James 2:22
You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected.
James 2:23
So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.
James 2:24
You see then that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.
James 2:25
In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?
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