Job 9:29

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 you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’

For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

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

So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh,

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

“The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),

Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

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

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

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says Yahweh, “and I will contend with your children’s children.

I will spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.

Tell the land of Israel, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, and will draw my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.

that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.

that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.

I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.”

But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.

What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.

If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;’

yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.

I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

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

“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

Surely then you will lift up your face without spot; Yes, you will be steadfast, and will not fear:

Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”

When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.

“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.

Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.

“Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

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

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!

Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,

Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh.

All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law.

Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”

“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways,

“Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me,” says Yahweh.

“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

A noise will come even to the end of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with the nations. He will enter into judgment with all flesh. As for the wicked, he will give them to the sword,” ’ says Yahweh.”

“Look, Yahweh; for I am in distress. My heart is troubled. My heart turns over within me, for I have grievously rebelled. Abroad, the sword bereaves. At home, it is like death.

They all said to each other, “Come! Let’s cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

Yahweh’s voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.

“You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?

Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.

But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’ ”

I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

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.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.