Wine Is a Mocker
Proverbs 20:9
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”?
- KJV
- Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
- WEB
- Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin”?
- ASV
- Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
- LSV
- Who says, “I have purified my heart, || I have been cleansed from my sin?”
- YLT
- Who saith, 'I have purified my heart, I have been cleansed from my sin?'
- DBY
- Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
- DRC
- Who can say: My heart is clean, I am pure from sin?
- GNV
- Who can say, I haue made mine heart cleane, I am cleane from my sinne?
- JPS
- Who can say: 'I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin'?
- LXXE
- Who will boast that he has a pure heart? or who will boldly say that he is pure from sins?
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- מִֽי־יֹ֭אמַר זִכִּ֣יתִי לִבִּ֑י טָ֝הַ֗רְתִּי מֵחַטָּאתִֽי׃
- LXX-Br
- Τίς καυχήσεται ἁγνὴν ἔχειν τὴν καρδίαν; ἢ τίς παῤῥησιάσεται καθαρὸς εἶναι ἀπὸ ἁμαρτιῶν;
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
CleanlinessSanctificationPurityProverbs, Book ofHeart, TheAblutionFall of Man, TheDepravity of ManProverbs, the Book ofSin
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
- 1 John 1:8–10If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not…
- 1 Kings 8:46When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to his own land, whether far or near,
- Job 14:4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
- Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
- 1 Corinthians 4:4My conscience is clear, but that does not vindicate me. It is the Lord who judges me.
- Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
- James 3:2We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole body.
- 2 Chronicles 6:36When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to a land far or near,
- Psalms 51:5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 20:9+20-22 in most Bibles