King James Version
Proverbs 20:9 in the King James Version says “Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?” — study this verse from Proverbs chapter 20 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?”
Proverbs 20:9 · KJV
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Divers weights , and divers measures , both of them are alike abomination to the LORD. Divers weights: Heb. A stone and a stone divers measures: Heb. an ephah and an ephah
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
KJV Study — Public Domain
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
“I have made my heart”
H3820the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the center of anything
“I am pure”
H2891to be pure (physical sound, clear, unadulterated; levitically, uncontaminated; morally, innocent or holy)
“from my sin”
H2403an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender
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