Question 13

Can we ourselves then make this satisfaction?

By no means;^a but on the contrary we daily increase our debt.^b

1. a. Job 9:2–3; 15:14–16

   Job 9:2–3

   ^9:2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? ^9:3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

   ^9:2 "Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God? ^9:3 If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.

   Job 15:14–16

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

   ^15:14 What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous? ^15:15 If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes, ^15:16 how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?

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2. b. Matthew 6:12; Isaiah 64:6

   Matthew 6:12

   ^6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

   ^6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

   Isaiah 64:6

   ^64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

   ^64:6 Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.

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