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,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
• Rom 7:24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
• Eph 2:1–2And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
• Zech 3:3Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
• Rev 3:17–18Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
• Isa 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
• Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Job 42:5–6I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
• Job 25:4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
• Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
• Phil 3:9And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
• Ps 51:5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
• Isa 46:12Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
• Ps 90:5–6Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
• Isa 6:5Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
• Job 15:14–16What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• Isa 57:12–13I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
• Job 40:4Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
• Isa 40:6–8The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
• Rev 7:13And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
• Ps 1:4The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
• Hos 4:19The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
• 1 Pet 1:24–25For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
• Isa 48:1Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
• Jas 1:10–11But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
• Zech 5:8–11And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
• Jer 4:11–12At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,

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