Is mortal man more righteous than God? Is a strong man more pure than his Maker?

even moreso those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the grass!

Truly I know it is so; but how can a man be just before the Mighty God?

What is man, that he should be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

how much more abhorrent and corrupt is man, who drinks injustice like water!

If You, YAH, should keep remembering iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

Do not enter into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no one living is just.

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Therefore by the deeds of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for through the Law is the full true knowledge of sin.

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

And do You open Your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with Yourself?

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

In that day a fountain shall be opened to the house of David and to those living in Jerusalem, for sin and for impurity.

among whom also we all formerly conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others;

And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

and from Jesus Christ, the Faithful Witness, the Firstborn out from the dead, and the Ruler over the kings of the earth; to Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,