1 Corinthians 4:4

WEB

⁴For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

KJV

⁴For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

BSB

⁴My conscience is clear, but that does not vindicate me. It is the Lord who judges me.

FBV

⁴I don't know of anything I've done wrong, but that doesn't make me morally right. It's the Lord who judges me.

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Extra References

Psalms 143:2

²Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

1 John 3:20-21

²⁰because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. ²¹Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

Psalms 130:3

³If you, LORD,^[+] kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Proverbs 21:2

²Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the hearts.

¹²For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

Psalms 19:12

¹²Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

Job 9:2-3

²“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God? ³If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

Romans 2:13

¹³For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

Job 27:6

⁶I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.

2 Corinthians 5:10

¹⁰For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.