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Proverbs 20:9 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 20 · verse 9
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?Proverbs 20:9 · King James Version
Proverbs 20:9 in context
7The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
8A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
10Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
11Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
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Key words (Strong's)
- heartlêbthe heartH3820 →
- cleanzâkâhto be translucentH2135 →
- pureṭâhêrto be pure (physical sound, clear, unadulteratedH2891 →
- sayʼâmarto sayH559 →
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This question is not only a challenge to any man in the world to prove himself sinless, whatever he pretends, but a lamentation of the corruption of mankind, even that which remains in the best. Alas! Who can say, "I am sinless?" Observe, 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary