Proverbs 20:9

Foolproof Instructions

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A [discerning] king who sits on the throne of judgment
Sifts all evil [like chaff] with his eyes [and cannot be easily fooled].
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Who can say, “I have cleansed my heart,
I am pure from my sin?”
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Differing weights [one for buying and another for selling] and differing measures,
Both of them are detestable and offensive to the Lord.

Free from Sin

Without Sin

Sin

1 Kings 8:46

“When they sin against You (for there is no man who does not sin) and You are angry with them and hand them over to the enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the enemy’s land, [whether] far away or near;

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Indeed, there is not a righteous man on earth who always does good and who never sins.

2 Chronicles 6:36

“When they sin against You (for there is no man who does not sin) and You are angry with them and hand them over to an enemy, so that they take them away captive to a land far away or near,

Job 14:4

“Who can make a clean thing out of the unclean?
No one!

Job 15:14

“What is man, that he should be pure and clean,
Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous and just?

Job 25:4

“How then can man be justified and righteous with God?
Or how can he who is born of a woman be pure and clean?

Psalm 51:5

I was brought forth in [a state of] wickedness;
In sin my mother conceived me [and from my beginning I, too, was sinful].

1 Corinthians 4:4

I am aware of nothing against myself and I feel blameless, but I am not by this acquitted [before God]. It is the Lord who judges me.

James 3:2

For we all stumble and sin in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says [never saying the wrong thing], he is a perfect man [fully developed in character, without serious flaws], able to bridle his whole body and rein in his entire nature [taming his human faults and weaknesses].

1 John 1:8-10

If we say we have no sin [refusing to admit that we are sinners], we delude ourselves and the truth is not in us. [His word does not live in our hearts.]