Psalms 144:3

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

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

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

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?

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

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

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

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

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

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

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!”

But one has somewhere testified, saying, “What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.

Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.

Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?

What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!”

“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, “God rested on the seventh day from all his works;”

Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.”

They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up.

Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he didn’t even take this to heart.

Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

He said to him, “O Lord, how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”

Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “Yahweh helped us until now.”

Saul answered, “Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? And my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then do you speak to me like this?”

Then the woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.” He said, “Say on.”

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;

Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh.

Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?

“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 a land far off or near;

and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.

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

He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.

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

Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

Their prince will be one of them, and their ruler will proceed from among them. I will cause him to draw near, and he will approach me; for who is he who has had boldness to approach me?” says Yahweh.

He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.”

Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? You will again see yet greater abominations than these.”

The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”

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

Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’

“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed,

Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

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

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,