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King James Version (1611 Edition)

Proverbs 20:9

Who can say, I haue made my heart cleane, I am pure from my sinne?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ablution;   Cleanliness;   Depravity of Man;   Heart;   Purity;   Thompson Chain Reference - Error;   Human;   Man;   Self-Justification;   Self-Justification-Self-Condemnation;   Sin;   Sin-Saviour;   Transgression;   Universal;   The Topic Concordance - Sin;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fall of Man, the;   Heart, the;   Sin;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Sanctification;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Purity-Purification;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Sin;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Clean;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Prov'erbs, Book of;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for February 15;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure;I am cleansed from my sin”?
Hebrew Names Version
Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"
King James Version
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
English Standard Version
Who can say, "I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin"?
New American Standard Bible
Who can say, "I have cleansed my heart, I am pure from my sin"?
New Century Version
No one can say, "I am innocent; I have never done anything wrong."
Amplified Bible
Who can say, "I have cleansed my heart, I am pure from my sin?"
World English Bible
Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"
Geneva Bible (1587)
Who can say, I haue made mine heart cleane, I am cleane from my sinne?
Legacy Standard Bible
Who can say, "I have kept my heart pure,I am clean from my sin"?
Berean Standard Bible
Who can say, "I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin"?
Contemporary English Version
Can any of us really say, "My thoughts are pure, and my sins are gone"?
Complete Jewish Bible
Who can say, "I have made my heart clean, I am cleansed from my sin"?
Darby Translation
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Easy-to-Read Version
Can anyone say their heart is pure? Who can say, "I am free from sin"?
George Lamsa Translation
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sins?
Good News Translation
Can anyone really say that his conscience is clear, that he has gotten rid of his sin?
Lexham English Bible
Who will say "I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?
Literal Translation
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Who can saye: my hert is cleane, I am innocent from synne?
American Standard Version
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Bible in Basic English
Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Who can say: 'I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin'?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Who can say, I haue made my heart cleane, I am pure from [my] sinne?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Who will boast that he has a pure heart? or who will boldly say that he is pure from sins?
English Revised Version
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Who may seie, Myn herte is clene; Y am clene of synne?
Update Bible Version
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Webster's Bible Translation
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
New English Translation
Who can say, "I have kept my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?
New King James Version
Who can say, "I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin"?
New Living Translation
Who can say, "I have cleansed my heart; I am pure and free from sin"?
New Life Bible
Who can say, "I have made my heart clean, and I am pure from my sin?"
New Revised Standard
Who can say, "I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Who can say, I have cleansed my heart, I am pure from my sin?
Douay-Rheims Bible
Who can say: My heart is clean, I am pure from sin?
Revised Standard Version
Who can say, "I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?
Young's Literal Translation
Who saith, `I have purified my heart, I have been cleansed from my sin?'
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Who can say, "I have cleansed my heart, I am pure from my sin"?

Contextual Overview

9 Who can say, I haue made my heart cleane, I am pure from my sinne?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Kings 8:46, 2 Chronicles 6:36, Job 14:4, Job 15:14, Job 25:4, Psalms 51:5, Ecclesiastes 7:20, 1 Corinthians 4:4, James 3:2, 1 John 1:8-10

Reciprocal: Genesis 8:21 - the imagination Leviticus 13:6 - wash Psalms 24:4 - pure Psalms 51:10 - clean 2 Corinthians 7:1 - let

Cross-References

Genesis 12:18
And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done vnto me? Why diddest thou not tell me, that she was thy wife?
Genesis 20:10
And Abimelech said vnto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?
Genesis 20:11
And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the feare of God is not in this place: and they will slay mee for my wiues sake.
Genesis 20:18
For the LORD had fast closed vp all the wombes of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abrahams wife.
Genesis 26:10
And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done vnto vs? one of the people might lightly haue lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest haue brought guiltinesse vpon vs.
Genesis 34:7
And the sonnes of Iacob came out of the field when they heard it, and the men were grieued: and they were very wroth, because hee had wrought folly in Israel, in lying with Iacobs daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
Genesis 38:24
And it came to passe about three moneths after, that it was tolde Iudah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot, and also behold, she is with child by whoredom: and Iudah said, Bring her foorth, and let her be burnt.
Genesis 39:9
There is none greater in this house then I: neither hath hee kept backe any thing from me, but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I doe this great wickednesse, and sinne against God?
Exodus 32:21
And Moses said vnto Aaron, What did this people vnto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sinne vpon them?
Exodus 32:35
And the Lord plagued the people, because they made the Calfe, which Aaron made.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who can say, I have made my heart clean,.... The heart of than is naturally unclean, the mind, conscience, understanding, will, and affections; there is no part clean, all are defiled with sin; and though there is such a thing as a pure or clean heart, yet not as made so by men; it is God that has made the heart, that can only make it clean, or create a clean heart in men; it is not to be done by themselves, or by anything that they can do; it is done only by the grace of God, and blood of Christ: God has promised to do it, and he does it; and to him, and to him only, is it to be ascribed;

I am pure from my sin? the sin of nature or of action: such indeed who are washed from their sins in the blood of Christ; whose sins are all pardoned for his sake, and who are justified from all things by his righteousness; they are pure from sin, none is to be seen in them, or found upon them in a legal sense: they are all fair and comely, and without fault in the sight of God; their iniquities are caused to pass from them; and they are clothed with fine linen, clean and white, the righteousness of the saints: but then none are pure from indwelling sin, nor from the commission of sin; no man can say this, any more than the former; if he does, he is an ignorant man, and does not know the plague of his heart; and he is a vain pharisaical man; yea, a man that does not speak the truth, nor is the truth in him, 1 John 1:8.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A warning voice against the spirit, which, ignorant of its own guilt, is forward to condemn others.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 20:9. Who can say, I have made my heart clean — No man. But thousands can testify that the blood of Jesus Christ has cleansed them from all unrighteousness. And he is pure from his sin, who is justified freely through the redemption that is in Jesus.


 
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