Psalms 143:1–2

²Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.

¹IN thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.

⁶I said unto the Lord, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O Lord.

¹⁶¶ O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.

⁹If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

¹I WILL sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.

²For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.

²⁵And now, O Lord God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever, and do as thou hast said.

²⁰For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

⁴How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

²⁰Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

³If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

¹⁰If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

¹⁶Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

¹⁴What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

³And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

¹⁷Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

⁴⁶If 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;

⁷Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

²I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

³If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.