If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.