If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
Parallel translations
- KJV If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
- BSB If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
- NKJV If You, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
- NASB If You, Lord, were to keep account of guilty deeds, Lord, who could stand?
- NLT Lord, if you kept a record of our sins, who, O Lord, could ever survive?
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Cross-references · 12
- Ps 143:2Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
- Ps 76:7You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?
- Rom 3:20–24Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
- John 8:7–9But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.”
- Job 10:14if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
- Rev 6:17for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?”
- Nah 1:6Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
- Mal 3:2“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderer’s soap;
- Job 15:14What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- Job 9:20Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.
- 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.
- Job 9:2–3“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
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