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Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"
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The Impossibility of Self-Purification
Commentators unanimously agree that this verse is a rhetorical question to which the answer is "no one." It highlights the universal human condition of sinfulness. No person, by their own effort, can claim to have a perfectly clean heart or be completely free from sin. As one scholar notes, to think otherwise is to be ignorant of the "plague of his heart."
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A warning voice against the spirit, which, ignorant of its own guilt, is quick to condemn others.
19th Century
Anglican
Who can say, I have made my heart clean? —Though we may have done our best by self-examination and confession, and repent…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Who can say, I have made my heart clean The heart of man is naturally unclean, the mind, conscience, understanding, …
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Some can say, Through grace, we are cleaner than we have been; but it was the work of the Holy Spirit.