⁹ Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?

⁴⁶ If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away as prisoners into a strange land, far off or near;

²⁰ There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.

⁴ If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

³⁶ If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them, and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away prisoners to a land far off or near;

⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

⁹ If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.

¹⁰ If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.

² For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.

⁴ For I am not conscious of any wrong in myself; but this does not make me clear, for it is the Lord who is my judge.

⁵ Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

⁴ How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

¹⁴ What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?