Proverbs 20:9

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

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A warning voice against the spirit, which, ignorant of its own guilt, is forward to condemn others.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 20. We have still further traces in Proverbs 20:9 ; Proverbs 20:24 of the sceptical spirit and the obstinate questionings of self chara...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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 cha...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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, "...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Raging] RV 'a brawler.' Is deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

'What mortal when he saw, Life's voyage done, his heavenly Friend, Could ever yet dare tell Him fearlessly: “I have kept uninfring'd my nature's law...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 ato...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 fai...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 wit...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Who can say, I have made my heart clean ,.... The heart of than is naturally unclean, the mind, conscience, understanding, will, and affections; the...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 Pha...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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 p...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Sermon Bible Commentary

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 Ol...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 20:1 . Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging. In the book of Ecclesiasticus intoxication is connected with poverty, with harlots, with...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...

⁹ Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 20:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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