Proverbs 20:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Proverbs 20:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 7:20
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
1 John 1:8-10
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. …
1 Kings 8:46
If they sin against thee,(for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9)

This question is not only a challenge to any man in the world to prove himself sinless, whatever he pretends, but a lamentation of the corruption of mankind, even that which remains in the best. Alas! Who can say, “I am sinless?” Observe, 1. Who the persons are that are excluded from these pretensions—all, one as well as another. Here, in this imperfect state, no person whatsoever can pretend to b…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. The interrogation in the affirmative strengthens the implied negation (compare Job 15:14; Ec 7:20).