Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

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Bible References

Because

Jeremiah 2:23
How can you say, ‘I am not defiled,
I have not gone after the Baals’?
Look at your way in the valley!
Know what you have done!
You are a swift young camel entangling her ways,
Job 33:9
‘I am pure, without transgression;
I am innocent and there is no guilt in me.
Proverbs 28:13
He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper,
But he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion.
Isaiah 58:3
‘Why have we fasted and You do not see?
Why have we humbled ourselves and You do not notice?’
Behold, on the day of your fast you find your desire,
And drive hard all your workers.
Romans 7:9
I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died;

I will

Jeremiah 2:9
“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” declares the Lord,
“And with your sons’ sons I will contend.
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

General references

Job 9:29
“I am accounted wicked,
Why then should I toil in vain?