Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am clean and without sin"? New Living Translation Who can say, “I have cleansed my heart; I am pure and free from sin”? English Standard Version Who can say, “I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin”? Berean Standard Bible Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”? King James Bible Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? New King James Version Who can say, “I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin”? New American Standard Bible Who can say, “I have cleansed my heart, I am pure from my sin”? NASB 1995 Who can say, “I have cleansed my heart, I am pure from my sin “? NASB 1977 Who can say, “I have cleansed my heart, I am pure from my sin”? Legacy Standard Bible Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure, I am clean from my sin”? Amplified Bible Who can say, “I have cleansed my heart, I am pure from my sin?” Christian Standard Bible Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”? Holman Christian Standard Bible Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin"? American Standard Version Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? Aramaic Bible in Plain English Who will say, "You are innocent, my heart, and I am purified from sin"? Brenton Septuagint Translation Who will boast that he has a pure heart? or who will boldly say that he is pure from sins. Contemporary English Version Can any of us really say, "My thoughts are pure, and my sins are gone"? Douay-Rheims Bible Who can say: My heart is clean, I am pure from sin? English Revised Version Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? GOD'S WORD® Translation Who can say, "I've made my heart pure. I'm cleansed from my sin"? Good News Translation Can anyone really say that his conscience is clear, that he has gotten rid of his sin? International Standard Version Who can say, "My intentions are pure; I am clean from any sin?" JPS Tanakh 1917 Who can say: 'I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin'? Literal Standard Version Who says, “I have purified my heart, | I have been cleansed from my sin?” Majority Standard Bible Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”? New American Bible Who can say, “I have made my heart clean, I am cleansed of my sin”? NET Bible Who can say, "I have kept my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"? New Revised Standard Version Who can say, “I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin”? New Heart English Bible Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?" Webster's Bible Translation Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? World English Bible Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?” Young's Literal Translation Who saith, 'I have purified my heart, I have been cleansed from my sin?' Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Wine is a Mocker…8A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes. 9Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”? 10Differing weights and unequal measures—both are detestable to the LORD.… Cross References Romans 3:9 What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin. 1 John 1:8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 1 Kings 8:46 When they sin against You--for there is no one who does not sin--and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to his own land, whether far or near, 2 Chronicles 6:36 When they sin against You--for there is no one who does not sin--and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to a land far or near, Job 14:4 Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one! Job 15:14 What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous? Ecclesiastes 7:20 Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins. Treasury of Scripture Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? 1 Kings 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 near; 2 Chronicles 6:36 If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near; Job 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. Jump to Previous Able Clean Cleansed Free Heart Kept Pure Purified SinJump to Next Able Clean Cleansed Free Heart Kept Pure Purified SinProverbs 20 1. Proper Living(9) Who can say, I have made my heart clean?--Though we may have done our best by self-examination and confession, and repentance and trust in the atoning blood of Christ to obtain remission of sin, still the heart is so deceitful (Jeremiah 17:9), sins may so easily have escaped our notice (Psalm 19:12, 1Corinthians 4:4), that satisfaction with ourselves ought never to be allowed (Romans 11:20).Verse 9. - Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? The question implies the answer, "No one." This is expressed in Job 14:4, "Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one." At the dedication of the temple, Solomon enunciates this fact of man's corruption, "There is no man that sinneth not" (1 Kings 8:46). The prophet testifies, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is desperately sick: who can know it?" (Jeremiah 17:9). And St. John warns, "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us" (1 John 1:8). The heart is cleansed by self-examination and repentance; but it is so easy to deceive one's self in this matter, sins may lurk undetected, motives may be overlooked, so that no one can rightly be self-righteous, or conceited, or proud of his spiritual state. The "my sin" at the end of the clause is rather possible than actual sin; and the expression means that no one can pride himself on being secure from yielding to temptation, however clean for a time his conscience may be. The verse, therefore, offers a stern corrective of two grievous spiritual errors - presumption and apathy. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Whoמִֽי־ (mî-) Interrogative Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix can say, יֹ֭אמַר (yō·mar) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 559: To utter, say “I have kept my heart לִבִּ֑י (lib·bî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre pure; זִכִּ֣יתִי (zik·kî·ṯî) Verb - Piel - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's 2135: To be translucent, to be innocent I am cleansed טָ֝הַ֗רְתִּי (ṭā·har·tî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's 2891: To be clean or pure from my sin”? מֵחַטָּאתִֽי׃ (mê·ḥaṭ·ṭā·ṯî) Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 2403: An offence, its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, expiation, an offender Links Proverbs 20:9 NIVProverbs 20:9 NLT Proverbs 20:9 ESV Proverbs 20:9 NASB Proverbs 20:9 KJV Proverbs 20:9 BibleApps.com Proverbs 20:9 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 20:9 Chinese Bible Proverbs 20:9 French Bible Proverbs 20:9 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 20:9 Who can say I have made my (Prov. 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