And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

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

Who can understand {his} errors? cleanse thou me from secret {faults}.

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

Every way of a man {is} right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.

(For not the hearers of the law {are} just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach {me} so long as I live. {so long...: Heb. from my days}

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things {done} in {his} body, according to that he hath done, whether {it be} good or bad.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. {guilty...: or, subject to the judgment of God}

I know {it is} so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? {with God: or, before God?}

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

And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men {and} brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: {if I say}, I {am} perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

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

He saith unto him the third time, Simon, {son} of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.

O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God {is} judge himself. Selah.

For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath {whereof} to glory; but not before God.

For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, {then} have we confidence toward God.

Who can understand {his} errors? cleanse thou me from secret {faults}.

Many seek the ruler's favour; but {every} man's judgment {cometh} from the LORD. {the ruler's...: Heb. the face of a ruler}

Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech {you} by us: we pray {you} in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men {and} brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and {toward} men.

I charge {thee} therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

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

The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity {that is} in me.

And he said unto them, The LORD {is} witness against you, and his anointed {is} witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, {He is} witness.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. {ungodly: or, unmerciful} {the deceitful...: Heb. a man of deceit and iniquity}

Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited {me} in the night; thou hast tried me, {and} shalt find nothing; I am purposed {that} my mouth shall not transgress.

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

{Though} I {were} perfect, {yet} would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you.

Whom, though I were righteous, {yet} would I not answer, {but} I would make supplication to my judge.

Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.

Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.