Psalms 130:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?”
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BSBPD
“If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“If thou, Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 130:3 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 9:27Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.
- Ezra 9:15O LORD, God of Israel, You are righteous! For we remain this day as a remnant. Here we are before You in our guilt, though because of it no one can stand before You.”
- Job 9:2“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
- Job 9:20Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
- Job 10:14If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
- Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
- Psalms 76:7You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?
- Psalms 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
- Isaiah 53:6We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
- Nahum 1:6Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
- Malachi 3:2But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.
- John 8:7When they continued to question Him, He straightened up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone at her.”
- Romans 3:20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
- Revelation 6:17For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”
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