Job 9:2-3

2 “Truly I know that it is so:
But how can a man be ain the right before God?
3If one wished to bcontend with him,
one could not answer him once in a thousand times.

Job 9:20

20Though I am in the right, cmy own mouth would condemn me;
though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.

Job 10:14

14If I sin, you dwatch me
and do not eacquit me of my iniquity.

Job 15:14

14 fWhat is man, gthat he can be pure?
Or he who is hborn of a woman, that he can be righteous?

Psalms 143:2

2 iEnter not into judgment with your servant,
for no one living is righteous jbefore you.

Isaiah 53:6

6 kAll we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
land the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.

John 8:7-9

7And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, m“Let him who is without sin among you nbe the first to throw a stone at her.” 8And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. 9But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

Romans 3:20-24

20For oby works of the law no human being
Greek flesh
will be justified in his sight, since qthrough the law comes knowledge of sin.

The Righteousness of God Through Faith

21But now rthe righteousness of God shas been manifested apart from the law, although tthe Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— 22the righteousness of God uthrough faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. vFor there is no distinction: 23for wall have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 xand are justified yby his grace as a gift, zthrough the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
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