Isaiah 64:6
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
KJV
Et facti sumus ut immundus omnes nos, et quasi pannus menstruatæ universæ justitiæ nostræ ; et cecidimus quasi folium universi, et iniquitates nostræ quasi ventus abstulerunt nos.
Vulgate
καὶ ἐγενήθημεν ὡς ἀκάθαρτοι πάντες ἡμεῖς, ὡς ῥάκος ἀποκαθημένης πᾶσα ἡ δικαιοσύνη ἡμῶν· καὶ ἐξερύημεν ὡς φύλλα διὰ τὰς ἀνομίας ἡμῶν· οὕτως ἄνεμος οἴσει ἡμᾶς.
LXX
For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
ASV
וְ/אֵין קוֹרֵ֣א בְ/שִׁמְ/ךָ֔ מִתְעוֹרֵ֖ר לְ/הַחֲזִ֣יק בָּ֑/ךְ כִּֽי הִסְתַּ֤רְתָּ פָנֶ֨י/ךָ֙ מִמֶּ֔/נּוּ וַ/תְּמוּגֵ֖/נוּ בְּ/יַד עֲוֺנֵֽ/נוּ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Themes
Historic Christian voices
8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Q. Can we pay this debt ourselves? A. Certainly not. Actually, we increase our guilt every day.
Q. Why can't the good we do make us right with God, or at least help make us right with him? A. Because the righteousness which can pass God's scrutiny must be entirely perfect and must in every way measure up to the divine law. But even our best works in this life are imperfect and stained with sin.
Christian faith is not an opinion or human conviction, but a most firm trust and a clear and steadfast assent of the mind, and then a most certain apprehension of the truth of God, presented in the Scriptures and in the Apostles' Creed. It is the gift of God, which is given to the elect according to the measure which God has distributed to each one. Because faith is a gift of G…
Cross-references
- 1John 1:8 — If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
- 1Kgs 8:46 — If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or n
- 2Chr 6:37 — Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wick
- Eccl 7:20 — For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
- Eph 2:1 — And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
- Ezek 3:20 — Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his si
- Ezek 36:17 — Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.
- Isa 6:5 — Then 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.
- Isa 28:20 — For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
- Isa 46:12 — Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
- Isa 53:6 — All 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.
- Isa 57:12 — I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
- Jas 3:2 — For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
- Jer 13:7 — Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
- Jer 22:22 — The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.
- Job 14:4 — Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
- Job 15:14 — What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- Job 25:4 — How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
- Job 40:4 — Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
- Job 42:5 — I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
- Jude 1:23 — And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
- Lev 13:45 — And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
- Luke 17:10 — So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
- Matt 22:11 — And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
- Matt 25:37 — Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
- Neh 1:6 — Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess
- Phil 3:9 — And 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 14:3 — They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
- Ps 19:12 — Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
- Ps 51:5 — Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
- Ps 53:3 — Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
- Ps 90:5 — Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
- Rev 3:17 — Because 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:
- Rom 3:12 — They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
- Rom 7:18 — For 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 7:18 — For 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 7:24 — O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
- Rom 10:3 — For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
- Titus 3:3 — For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
- Zech 3:3 — Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.