Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.