Isaiah 64:6
We have all turned into something unclean; our righteous deeds, every one, are like a cloth soiled by a woman's monthly blood. We fade like leaves, all of us, and our guilt carries us off like the wind.
Treated in 16 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- The Pilgrim's Progress ·
The First Stage cites Isa 64:6
…with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. Isa 64:6; Luke 14:33; Psalm 38:4. I looked and saw him open the book, and read therein; and as he…
- Communion with God ·
The nature of purchased grace cites Isa. lxiv. 6
…right hand of the Majesty on high, Heb. i. 3. [3.] In our best duties we have defilement, Isa. lxiv. 6. Self, unbelief, form, drop themselves into all that we do. We may be ashamed of our…
- Communion with God ·
How the saints hold communion with Christ as to their acceptation with God cites Isa. lxiv. 6
…up a garment of righteousness out of my best duties? Ah! it is all as a defiled cloth,” Isa. lxiv. 6. These thoughts accompany them in all their duties, in their best and most choice…
- The Key Teachings of John Wesley ·
Salvation by Faith cites ISAIAH 64:6
…for. But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. ISAIAH 64:6 So if sinners are to find favour with God, it must be grace upon grace. Then comes the…
- The Ten Commandments ·
2.1 The First Commandment cites Isa 64: 6
…make them a god. ‘Our righteousnesses are as filthy rags;’ they are fly-blown with sin. Isa 64: 6. Put gold in the fire, and much dross comes out: so our most golden duties are mixed with…
- The God of All Comfort ·
Jehovah cites Isaiah 64:6
…God. The prophet tells us that even our best righteousness is like “a polluted garment” (Isaiah 64:6). And Paul expresses his desire to “be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own…
- The Key Teachings of George Whitefield ·
The Method of Grace cites ISAIAH 64:6
…and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. ISAIAH 64:6 Fourth, there is one sin that must trouble us above all, which few think they are guilty…
- The Pilgrim's Progress ·
The Ninth Stage cites Isa. 64:6
…upon me, especially such sayings as these: “All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.” Isa. 64:6. “By the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.” Gal. 2:16. “When ye have done all…
- The Key Teachings of Hudson Taylor ·
Separated unto the Lord cites ISAIAH 64:6
…But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. ISAIAH 64:6 This keeps separation from turning into pride. The Nazarite is not a spiritual…
- The Key Teachings of John Calvin ·
The Main Hinge of Religion cites ISAIAH 64:6
…own. But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. ISAIAH 64:6 This is why he says, in his sermon on All Scripture in the Ochorus library, that men may…
- Evening by Evening ·
October cites Isaiah 64:6
…henceforth we may live not unto ourselves! October 27 “We are all as an unclean thing.” (Isaiah 64:6) The believer is a new creature, he belongs to a holy generation and a peculiar…
- Holiness ·
Extracts from Old Writers cites Isa. lxiv. 6
…all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.’ (Job xiv. 4; Isa. lxiv. 6.) ‘There is none righteous, no not one; there is none that understandeth, there is none…
- A Body of Divinity ·
Christ's Priestly Office cites Isa 64:6
…us, are mixed with corruption, as wine that tastes of the cask. ‘They are filthy rags.’ Isa 64:6. But Christ purifies and sweetens these services, mixing the sweet odours of his…
- A Body of Divinity ·
Justification cites Isa 64:6
…How can those works justify us which defile us? ‘Our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.’ Isa 64:6. Bona opera non praecedunt justificationem, sed sequuntur justificatum: good works are…
- Old Paths ·
Forgiveness cites Isaiah lxiv. 6
…no sin we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” (Gen. xviii. 27; Job xl. 4; Isaiah lxiv. 6; 1 John i. 8.) Where is the man or woman in the whole catalogue of the Book of Life, that…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 3, Chapter 20 — Of Prayer cites Isa. 64:5-9
…remember iniquity for ever: Behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.” (Isa. 64:5-9). You see how they put no confidence in any thing but this: considering that they are the…