Job 25:4

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Job 25:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 “Dominion and awe belong to God; He establishes harmony in the heights of heaven.

3 Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?

4 How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

5 If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,

6 how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”

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Job 4:17

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Job 4:18

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Job 4:19

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Job 9:2

“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

Job 15:14

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Job 15:15

If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,

Job 15:16

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Psalms 130:3

If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?

Psalms 143:2

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Romans 3:19

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Romans 3:20

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Romans 5:1

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1 Corinthians 6:11

And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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