"Can anyone be righteous in the sight of God or be pure before his Creator?

Do you think he will trust a creature of clay, a thing of dust that can be crushed like a moth?

(SEE 9:1)

Can any human being be really pure? Can anyone be right with God?

And we drink evil as if it were water; yes, we are corrupt; we are worthless.

If you kept a record of our sins, who could escape being condemned?

Don't put me, your servant, on trial; no one is innocent in your sight.

Now we know that everything in the Law applies to those who live under the Law, in order to stop all human excuses and bring the whole world under God's judgment.

For no one is put right in God's sight by doing what the Law requires; what the Law does is to make us know that we have sinned.

Now that we have been put right with God through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Will you even look at me, God, or put me on trial and judge me?

Nothing clean can ever come from anything as unclean as human beings.

I have been evil from the day I was born; from the time I was conceived, I have been sinful.

"When that time comes," says the LORD Almighty, "a fountain will be opened to purify the descendants of David and the people of Jerusalem from their sin and idolatry.

Actually all of us were like them and lived according to our natural desires, doing whatever suited the wishes of our own bodies and minds. In our natural condition we, like everyone else, were destined to suffer God's anger.

Some of you were like that. But you have been purified from sin; you have been dedicated to God; you have been put right with God by the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

But if we confess our sins to God, he will keep his promise and do what is right: he will forgive us our sins and purify us from all our wrongdoing.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first to be raised from death and who is also the ruler of the kings of the world. He loves us, and by his sacrificial death he has freed us from our sins