Psalm 143:2 “Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous…”

Psalm 143:2

Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

World English Bible

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

American Standard Version

And enter not into judgment with thy servant; For in thy sight no man living is righteous.

Geneva Bible 1599

(And enter not into iudgement with thy seruant: for in thy sight shall none that liueth, be iustified)

Darby Translation

And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.

Young's Literal Translation

And enter not into judgment with Thy servant, For no one living is justified before Thee.

Bible in Basic English

Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.

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Cross references

“enter not”

Psalm 130:3 Job 14:3

Psalm 130:3 · BSB

If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?

Job 14:3 · BSB

Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?

“in thy sight”

Ecclesiastes 7:20 Job 25:4 Romans 3:20 1 John 1:10 Job 15:14 Galatians 2:16

Ecclesiastes 7:20 · BSB

Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

Job 25:4 · BSB

How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Romans 3:20 · BSB

Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

1 John 1:10 · BSB

If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.

Job 15:14 · BSB

What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

Galatians 2:16 · BSB

know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of…

Also

1 Kings 8:46

1 Kings 8:46 · BSB

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,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1O LORD, hear my prayer. In Your faithfulness, give ear to my plea; in Your righteousness, answer me.

3For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.

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