Esaïe 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Génèse 32:12
And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
Job 16:21
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
Job 23:3-6
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Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
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I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
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I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
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Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
Job 40:4
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
Job 40:5
Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.
Psaumes 141:2
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Jérémie 2:21-35
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Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
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For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
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How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
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A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
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Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
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As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,
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Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
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But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
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Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
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In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
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O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
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Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
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Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
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Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
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Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Ezechiel 36:37
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.
Romains 11:35
Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
Esaïe 43:9
Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
Job 40:7
Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Job 40:8
Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
Luc 10:29
But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
Luc 16:15
And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
Luc 18:9-14
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And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
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Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
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The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
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I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
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And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
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I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Romains 8:33
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Romains 10:3
For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.