Proverbs 30:12
What does Proverbs 30:12 mean?
A plain-English look at Proverbs 30:12 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, Andyetare not washed from their filthiness.
KJV
King James Version · 1611There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, Andyetare not washed from their filthiness.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862A generation--pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752A generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness;
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Titus 1:15
To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
- Job 33:9
I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:
- Jeremiah 2:35
Yet thou saidst, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
- 1 John 1:7
but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
- Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes; But Jehovah weigheth the hearts.
- Isaiah 1:16
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
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