For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.
Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;
If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.
Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
“Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
“Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God? If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
And looking intently at the council, Paul said, “Brothers, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience up to this day.”
He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.
The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! Selah
My foot stands on level ground; in the great assembly I will bless the Lord.
O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands, if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause, let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah
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