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Selected Verse: Psalms 143:2 - King James

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Ps 143:2 King James And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
enter . . . judgment--deal not in strict justice.

shall no . . . justified--or, "is no man justified," or "innocent" (Job 14:3; Rom 3:20).
 
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20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
6 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.