Proverbs 20:10

"Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin”?"

Key Reflection

Proverbs 20:10 challenges the notion of self-righteousness by suggesting that true purity and holiness come not from human declaration but from divine evaluation. Only God can truly cleanse the heart; claiming otherwise is an illusion of self-sufficiency in righteousness.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

SeeProverbs 11:1: Here perhaps, as a companion toProverbs 20:9, with a wider application to all judging one man by rules which we do not apply to ourselves or to another.

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