“ Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? ”
A warning voice against the spirit, which, ignorant of its own guilt, is forward to condemn others.
Proverbs 20. We have still further traces in Proverbs 20:9 ; Proverbs 20:24 of the sceptical spirit and the obstinate questionings of self characteristic of the later Greek period of Jewish thou...
can . is able to. I am pure, &c. Illustrations: Job before he learned his lesson ( Job 9:17 ; Job 10:7 ; Job 11:4 ; Job 16:17 ; Job 23:10 ; Job 23:11 ; Job 27:5 ; Job 29:14 ; Job 31:1...
DISCOURSE: 802 NO ABSOLUTE PERFECTION HERE BELOW Proverbs 20:9 . Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? THE great characteristic of the Proverbs is wisdom; as that of...
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? Who can say, I have made any heart clean - No man. But thousands can testify that the blood of Jesus Christ has cleansed them from all...
Who can say, I have made my heart clean— If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us, says St. John. But here is our comfort, If we confess our sins, he is fa...
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? Who can say (with truth), I have made my heart clean. Nay, we ought to say, "Create in me a clean heart, O God" ( Psalms 51:10...
1. Raging] RV 'a brawler.' Is deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about.
Who can say, I have made my heart clean? — Though we may have done our best by self-examination and confession, and repentance and trust in the atoning blood of Christ to obtain remission of sin, s...
CHAPTER 21 IDLENESS "After the autumn gathering the slothful does not plough; he asks in the harvest, and there is nothing."- Proverbs 20:4 WE have already in the sixth lecture caught a glimps...
Sobriety; Industry; Honesty Proverbs 20:1-15 Strong drink is the greatest of all foes to human happiness. It gains an influence over men by fair promises, but when once it is entrenched, it moc...
Verse Proverbs 20:9 . This is the eternal challenge which has but one answer. When a man recognizes this he begins to inquire for a Saviour. Verse Proverbs 20:14 . "It is bad, it is bad," is the d...
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him. A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes. Who can say, I have made my heart clea...
Who can say, I have made my heart clean ,.... The heart of than is naturally unclean, the mind, conscience, understanding, will, and affections; there is no part clean, all are defiled with sin; and...
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? Ver. 9. Who can say, I have made my heart clean? ] That can I, saith the proud Pharisee and the Popish justiciary. Non habeo, Domin...
Who can say, I have made my heart clean? No man can say that he hath made his own heart clean: but God can create in man a clean heart , as David expresses himself, Psalms 51:10 , (on which see t...
9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? This question is not only a challenge to any man in the world to prove himself sinless, whatever he pretends, but a...
Who can say? no man living upon earth can say this truly and sincerely. Compare 1 Kings 8:46 Job 14:4 , Job 15:14 Ecclesiastes 7:20 1 John 1:8 . I am pure from my sin ; I am perfectly fr...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 20:6 . Miller reads the first clause of this verse, “ Much of the mere man one calls his goodness ,” i.e. , “Much that is merely human.” He allows, however, that the us...
Proverbs 20:9 This is a Gospel question before the time of the Gospel. All the great conditions of the human mind you find as distinctly in the Old Testament as in the New; all the questions that...
Proverbs 20:1 . Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging. In the book of Ecclesiasticus intoxication is connected with poverty, with harlots, with destruction: chap. Proverbs 19:1-2 . Cyrus, afte...
Who can say, I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin? Purity of heart I. Who can say, i have made my heart clean? We read of some who have clean hands, which implies an abstinence fro...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker; or, scorner, the word ( luts ) being taken up from the last chapter. The liquor is, as it were, personified, as doing what men do under its infl...
v. 9. Who can say, I have made my heart clean, purifying it to the point of moral perfection, I am pure from my sin? The answer is clearly given in the question and stated, Ecclesiastes 7:20 .
1 Corinthians 4:4 ; 1 John 1:8-10 ; 1 Kings 8:46 ; 2 Chronicles 6:36 ; Ecclesiastes 7:20 ; James 3:2 ; Job 14:4 ; Job 15:14 ; Job 25:4 ; Psalms 51:5