Proverbs 20:9 · KJV
“Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?”
— Proverbs 20:9
A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
Divers weights, {and} divers measures, both of them {are} alike abomination to the LORD. {Divers weights: Heb. A stone and a stone} {divers measures: Heb. an ephah and an ephah}
Proverbs 20 — Context
The just {man} walketh in his integrity: his children {are} blessed after him.
8A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
10Divers weights, {and} divers measures, both of them {are} alike abomination to the LORD. {Divers weights: Heb. A stone and a stone} {divers measures: Heb. an ephah and an ephah}
11Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work {be} pure, and whether {it be} right.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:20
For {there is} not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
1 John 1:8-10
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1 Kings 8:46
If they sin against thee, (for {there is} no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean {thing} out of an unclean? not one. {can...: Heb. will give}
Job 15:14
What {is} man, that he should be clean? and {he which is} born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 25:4
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean {that is} born of a woman?
1 Corinthians 4:4
For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. {know: or, I am not conscious of any fault}
James 3:2
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same {is} a perfect man, {and} able also to bridle the whole body.