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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 be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: (Phil. 3:9)

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Isa. 6:5• ⁵Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because 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, the Lord 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 the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isa. 53:6)

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Job 14:4• ⁴Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. (Job 14:4)

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Job 15:14‑16• ¹⁴What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
¹⁵Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
¹⁶How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? (Job 15:14‑16)

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Job 25:4• ⁴How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? (Job 25:4)

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

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Job 42:5‑6• ⁵I have 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, I was shapen in iniquity; 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,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
²⁴O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? (Rom. 7:18,24)

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Eph. 2:1‑2• ¹And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
²Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: (Eph. 2:1‑2)

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Titus 3:3• ³For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:3)

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

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

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Phil. 3:9• ⁹And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: (Phil. 3:9)

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Rev. 3:17‑18• ¹⁷Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
¹⁸I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. (Rev. 3:17‑18)

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Rev. 7:13• ¹³And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? (Rev. 7:13)

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Isa. 40:6‑8• ⁶The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
⁷The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
⁸The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand 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 which 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• ¹⁰But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
¹¹For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. (James 1:10‑11)

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1 Peter 1:24‑25• ²⁴For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
²⁵But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. (1 Peter 1:24‑25)

our iniquities.

Isa. 57:13• ¹³When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain; (Isa. 57:13)

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Psa. 1:4• ⁴The ungodly are not so: but are like 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 dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
¹²Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them. (Jer. 4:11‑12)

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Hos. 4:19• ¹⁹The wind hath bound her up in her 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 it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
⁹Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.
¹⁰Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah?
¹¹And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her 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.