Job 9:2

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”

‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this.”

Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’

Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.

‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.