Psalms 143:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.”
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“Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And enter not into judgment with thy servant; For in thy sight no man living is righteous.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And enter not into judgment with Thy servant, For no one living is justified before Thee.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 143:2 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 34:7maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”
- 1 Kings 8:46When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to his own land, whether far or near,
- Job 4:17‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
- Job 9:2“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
- Job 14:3Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
- Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
- Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
- Psalms 130:3If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
- Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
- Romans 3:20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
- Galatians 2:16know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
- 1 John 1:10If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.
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