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Proverbs 20:9
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Proverbs 20:9
9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
9*Who can say, I haue made my heart cleane, I am pure from my sinne?
- Psal.51.5. iob 14.4. 1.king.8.46. 2.chro. 6.36. eccles. 7.28. 1.ioh. 1.8.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 20:9
To speak, declare, tell, or express; also what is said.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Pure or free from defilement; also wholly or entirely.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Free from mixture, contamination, guilt, or moral defilement; genuine, clean, holy, or innocent according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Transgression of the law of God; an offence against God; or the sinful principle or condition, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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Open the full verse study20For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
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Open the full verse study8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
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Open the full verse study46If 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;
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Open the full verse study4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
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Open the full verse study14What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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Open the full verse study4For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
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Open the full verse study2For 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.
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Open the full verse study4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
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Open the full verse study36If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;
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Open the full verse study5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
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