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 7:18For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.
• Rom 7:24What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
• Eph 2:1–2You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,
• Zech 3:3Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.
• Rev 3:17–18Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
• Isa 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
• Titus 3:3For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Job 42:5–6I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.
• Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
• Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
• Phil 3:9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
• Ps 51:5Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.
• Isa 46:12Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness!
• Ps 90:5–6You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
• Isa 6:5Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”
• Job 15:14–16What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• Isa 57:12–13I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.
• Job 40:4“Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
• Isa 40:6–8The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
• Rev 7:13One of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and from where did they come?”
• Ps 1:4The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
• Hos 4:19The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be disappointed because of their sacrifices.
• 1 Pet 1:24–25For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
• Isa 48:1“Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness
• Jas 1:10–11and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
• Zech 5:8–11He said, “This is Wickedness”; and he threw her down into the middle of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.
• Jer 4:11–12At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;

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