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Psalms 143:2
Psalms 143:2 is verse 2 of Psalms chapter 143, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
King James Version
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
World English Bible
Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
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Psalms 143:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible
1 O LORD, hear my prayer. In Your faithfulness, give ear to my plea; in Your righteousness, answer me.
2 Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
3 For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.
4 My spirit grows faint within me; my heart is dismayed inside me.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 130:3If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
Job 14:3Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
Exodus 34:7maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”
Job 4:17‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
Job 9:2“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
Job 9:3If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
Romans 3:20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
Galatians 2:16know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
1 John 1:10If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.