Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
KJV
Quis potest facere mundum de immundo conceptum semine ? nonne tu qui solus es ?
Vulgate
τίς γὰρ καθαρὸς ἔσται ἀπὸ ῥύπου; ἀλλ’ οὐθείς,
LXX
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
ASV
מִֽי יִתֵּ֣ן טָ֭הוֹר מִ/טָּמֵ֗א לֹ֣א אֶחָֽד
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֶחָ֖ד
'chd
adjective · 970×
טָה֑וֹר
thvr
adjective · 94×
טָמֵ֥א
tm'
adjective · 88×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
ם
m
verb · 1995×
מִ֣י
my
particle · 420×
Doctrines that cite this verse
Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Chapter 26.—Of the Sacrifices Offered to God by the Saints, Which are to Be Pleasing to Him, as in the Primitive Days and Former Years. And it was with the design of showing that His city shall not then follow this custom, that God said that the sons of Levi should offer sacrifices in righteousness,—not therefore in sin, and consequently not for sin. And hence we see how vainly…
Can a man merit anything from God? Without grace, can anyone merit eternal life? May anyone with grace merit eternal life condignly? Is it chiefly through the instrumentality of charity that grace is the principle of merit? May a man merit the first grace for himself? May he merit it for someone else? Can anyone merit restoration after sin? Can he merit for himself an increase …
Q. But are we so corrupt that we are totally unable to do any good and inclined toward all evil? A. Yes, unless we are born again by the Spirit of God.
Human beings brought forth children of the same nature as themselves after the fall. That is to say, being corrupt they brought forth corrupt children. The corruption spread, by God's just judgment, from Adam to all his descendants — except for Christ alone — not by way of imitation (as the Pelagians of old asserted) but by way of the propagation of a perverted nature.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 15:48 — As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
- 1John 1:8 — If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
- Eph 2:3 — Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
- Gen 8:21 — And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will
- Isa 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.
- 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 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?
- John 3:6 — That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
- John 3:6 — That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
- Lev 12:2 — Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall s
- Luke 1:35 — And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be c
- Luke 1:35 — And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be c
- Mark 2:7 — Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?
- Mark 7:21 — For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
- Matt 1:18 — Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
- Matt 11:11 — Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
- Prov 20:9 — Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
- Ps 14:3 — They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
- Ps 51:5 — Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
- Ps 51:5 — Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
- Rom 3:10 — As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
- Rom 5:12 — Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
- 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 8:8 — So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.