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Isa. 64:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But we are all as an unclean thing, and all ourh righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

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Phil. 3:9• ⁹and that I may be found in him, not having my righteousness, which would be on the principle of law, but that which is by faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God through faith, (Phil. 3:9)

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are all.

Isa. 6:5• ⁵And I said, Woe unto me! for I am undone; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts. (Isa. 6:5)

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Isa. 53:6• ⁶All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all. (Isa. 53:6)

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Job 14:4• ⁴Who can bring a clean man out of the unclean? Not one! (Job 14:4)

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Job 15:14‑16• ¹⁴What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
¹⁵Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight:
¹⁶How much less the abominable and corrupt,--man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water! (Job 15:14‑16)

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Job 25:4• ⁴And how should man be just with *God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman? (Job 25:4)

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Job 40:4• ⁴Behold, I am nought: what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth. (Job 40:4)

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Job 42:5‑6• ⁵I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee:
⁶Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. (Job 42:5‑6)

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Psa. 51:5• ⁵Behold, in iniquity was I brought forth, and in sin did my mother conceive me. (Psa. 51:5)

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Rom. 7:18,24• ¹⁸For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right I find not.
²⁴O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of this body of death? (Rom. 7:18,24)

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Eph. 2:1‑2• ¹and *you*, being dead in your offences and sins--
²in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience: (Eph. 2:1‑2)

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Titus 3:3• ³For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:3)

all our.

Isa. 57:12• ¹²I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; and they shall not profit thee. (Isa. 57:12)

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Zech. 3:3• ³And Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the Angel. (Zech. 3:3)

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Phil. 3:9• ⁹and that I may be found in him, not having my righteousness, which would be on the principle of law, but that which is by faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God through faith, (Phil. 3:9)

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Rev. 3:17‑18• ¹⁷Because thou sayest, I am rich, and am grown rich, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that *thou* art the wretched and the miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked;
¹⁸I counsel thee to buy of me gold purified by fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white garments, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness may not be made manifest; and eye-salve to anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see. (Rev. 3:17‑18)

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Rev. 7:13• ¹³And one of the elders answered, saying to me, These who are clothed with white robes, who are they, and whence came they? (Rev. 7:13)

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Isa. 40:6‑8• ⁶A voice saith, Cry. And he saith, What shall I cry?--All flesh is grass, and all the comeliness thereof as the flower of the field.
⁷The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, for the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
⁸The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God abideth for ever. (Isa. 40:6‑8)

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Psa. 90:5‑6• ⁵Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass that groweth up:
⁶In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth. (Psa. 90:5‑6)

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James 1:10‑11• ¹⁰and the rich in his humiliation, because as the grass's flower he will pass away.
¹¹For the sun has risen with its burning heat, and has withered the grass, and its flower has fallen, and the comeliness of its look has perished: thus the rich also shall wither in his goings. (James 1:10‑11)

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1 Peter 1:24‑25• ²⁴Because all flesh is as grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass. The grass has withered and its flower has fallen;
²⁵but the word of the Lord abides for eternity. But this is the word which in the glad tidings is preached to you. (1 Peter 1:24‑25)

our iniquities.

Isa. 57:13• ¹³When thou criest, let them that are gathered by thee deliver thee! But a wind shall carry them all away, a breath shall take them; but he that putteth his trust in me shall inherit the land, and possess my holy mountain. (Isa. 57:13)

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Psa. 1:4• ⁴The wicked are not so; but are as the chaff which the wind driveth away. (Psa. 1:4)

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Jer. 4:11‑12• ¹¹At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind cometh from the heights in the wilderness, on the way of the daughter of my people, not for fanning, nor for cleansing.
¹²A wind more vehement than that shall come from me: now will I also pronounce judgments against them. (Jer. 4:11‑12)

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Hos. 4:19• ¹⁹The wind hath wrapped her up in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices. (Hos. 4:19)

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Zech. 5:8‑11• ⁸And he said, This is Wickedness: and he cast her into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
⁹And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a stork; and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens.
¹⁰And I said to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these carry the ephah?
¹¹And he said unto me, To build it a house in the land of Shinar; and it shall be established, and set there upon its own base. (Zech. 5:8‑11)

• Verses 6 and 7 continue the confession of sin that was interjected in verse 5. (“Isaiah 64:4-65:12” by F.B. Hole)

• Unclean, as a leper is unclean, in the sight of the law. (“Isaiah 64:4-65:12” by F.B. Hole)

• Their “righteousnesses”, that is, their many doings which they considered to be acts of righteousness, were but “filthy rags” in the sight of God. (“Isaiah 64:4-65:12” by F.B. Hole)

• As a consequence of this, they were all fading, dying things, like autumn leaves. (“Isaiah 64:4-65:12” by F.B. Hole)

• Their sins were like a wind that blew them all away. (“Isaiah 64:4-65:12” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And we are all become as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy ragsh; and we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have carried us away;

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Or "like a menstruous garment." Cf. ch. 30.22.