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Selected Verse: Proverbs 20:9 - Strong Concordance

Verse         Translation Text
Pr 20:9 Strong Concordance Who can say [0559], I have made my heart [03820] clean [02135], I am pure [02891] from my sin [02403]?
  King James Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

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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]
The interrogation in the affirmative strengthens the implied negation (compare Job 15:14; Ecc 7:20).
 
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20 For there is not a just [06662] man [0120] upon earth [0776], that doeth [06213] good [02896], and sinneth [02398] not.
14 What is man [0582], that he should be clean [02135]? and he which is born [03205] of a woman [0802], that he should be righteous [06663]?
14 What is man [0582], that he should be clean [02135]? and he which is born [03205] of a woman [0802], that he should be righteous [06663]?
15 Behold, he putteth no trust [0539] in his saints [06918]; yea, the heavens [08064] are not clean [02141] in his sight [05869].
16 How much more abominable [08581] and filthy [0444] is man [0376], which drinketh [08354] iniquity [05766] [05766] like water [04325]?
4 Who can bring [05414] a clean [02889] thing out of an unclean [02931]? not one [0259].
13 Keep back [02820] thy servant [05650] also from presumptuous [02086] sins; let them not have dominion [04910] over me: then shall I be upright [08552], and I shall be innocent [05352] from the great [07227] transgression [06588].
9 The heart [03820] is deceitful [06121] above all things, and desperately wicked [0605]: who can know [03045] it?
24 Therefore hath the LORD [03068] recompensed [07725] me according to my righteousness [06664], according to the cleanness [01252] of my hands [03027] in his eyesight [05869].
13 Verily I have cleansed [02135] my heart [03824] in vain [07385], and washed [07364] my hands [03709] in innocency [05356].
46 If they sin [02398] against thee, (for there is no man [0120] that sinneth [02398] not,) and thou be angry [0599] with them, and deliver [05414] them to the enemy [0341], so that they carry them away [07617] captives [07617] unto [06440] the land [0776] of the enemy [0341], far [07350] or near [07138];