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

¹ Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

² And enter not into judgment with thy servant; For in thy sight no man living is righteous.

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

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

¹⁵ Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

¹⁶ How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!

² Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?

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

¹⁸ Behold, he putteth no trust in his servants; And his angels he chargeth with folly:

¹⁹ How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!

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

¹ In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

⁵ Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, `who is' the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood;

³ among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--

¹⁹ Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:

²⁰ because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law `cometh' the knowledge of sin.

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

⁴ Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

¹¹ And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.