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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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Matthew Henry

(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 ...

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