Job 9:31
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31 yet you will plunge me into filth,
and my own clothes will abhor me.
Philippians 3:8-9
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8 More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ(A) 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law but one that comes through faith in Christ,[a] the righteousness from God based on faith.(B)
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- 3.9 Or through the faith of Christ
Isaiah 64:6
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6 We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth.
We all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.(A)
Isaiah 59:6
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6 Their webs cannot serve as clothing;
they cannot cover themselves with what they make.
Their works are works of iniquity,
and deeds of violence are in their hands.(A)
Job 15:6
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6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I;
your own lips testify against you.(A)
Job 9:20
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20 Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me;
though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
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