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Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?

No mere man, since the fall, is able in this life, perfectly to keep the commandments of God, but daily breaks them in thought, word, and deed.

Scripture proofs

  • Ecclesiastes 7:20

    Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

  • Genesis 6:5

    The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

  • Genesis 8:21

    The LORD smelled the pleasant aroma. The LORD said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

  • 1 John 1:8

    If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

  • James 3:8

    but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

  • James 3:2

    For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

  • Romans 3:23

    for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible (public domain).

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