Isaiah 64:6

All have become unclean, and even their righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; sin sweeps them away like wind-blown leaves. It matters because it teaches the total inadequacy of human righteousness before God.

Cross-references · 27

• Rom 7:18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
• Rom 7:24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
• Eph 2:1–2And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
• Zech 3:3Now Joshua was dressed in filthy garments as he stood before the angel.
• Rev 3:17–18You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.
• Isa 53:6We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
• Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
• Job 42:5–6My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You.
• Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
• Job 14:4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
• Phil 3:9and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.
• Ps 51:5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
• Isa 46:12Listen to Me, you stubborn people, far removed from righteousness:
• Ps 90:5–6You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
• Isa 6:5Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
• Job 15:14–16What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
• Isa 57:12–13I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.
• Job 40:4“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.
• Isa 40:6–8A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.
• Rev 7:13Then one of the elders addressed me: “These in white robes,” he asked, “who are they, and where have they come from?”
• Ps 1:4Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
• Hos 4:19The whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.
• 1 Pet 1:24–25For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
• Isa 48:1“Listen to this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, who have descended from the line of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, who invoke the God of Israel—but not in truth or righteousness—
• Jas 1:10–11But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
• Zech 5:8–11“This is Wickedness,” he said. And he shoved her down into the basket, pushing down the lead cover over its opening.
• Jer 4:11–12At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;

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