Job 14:4

Where it is preached

1. Communion with God · John Owen

   The nature of purchased grace cites Job xiv. 4

   …unclean, defiled, — habitually so; for “Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?” Job xiv. 4; “That which is born of the flesh is flesh,” John iii. 6. It is in the pollution of our…

2. The Bondage of the Will · Martin Luther

   Discussion: Part the Second cites Job xiv. 4

   …be wicked from a wicked seed? As Ps. li. 5, saith, “Behold I was conceived in sin.” And Job xiv. 4, “Who can make that clean which is conceived from unclean seed?” For although God did not…

3. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

   2.2 The Second Commandment cites Job 14: 4

   …you, make you clean.’ Isa 1: 16. But ‘who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?’ Job 14: 4. Therefore the precept is turned into a promise. ‘From all your filthiness will I cleanse…

4. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

   Book 2, Chapter 1 — Through the Fall and Revolt of Adam, the Whole Human Race Made Accursed and Degenerate cites Job 14:4

   …polluted. “Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one,” says the Book of Job (Job 14:4). 6. We thus see that the impurity of parents is transmitted to their children, so that…

5. The Key Teachings of Charles G. Finney · Ochorus Originals

   Depravity and the Will cites JOB 14:4

   …work of grace can make us new. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. JOB 14:4 Third, read the rest of Finney with this in mind. His practical counsel on prayer…

6. A Call to the Unconverted · Richard Baxter

   Sermon I cites Job xiv. 4

   …we are all now born into the world; for, “Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?” Job xiv. 4. As a lion hath a fierce and cruel nature before it doth devour; and an adder hath a…

7. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

   Extracts from Old Writers cites Job xiv. 4

   …‘But we are 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…

8. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

   Sanctification cites Job 14:4

   …Job propounds a question. ‘Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?’ Job 14:4. God can do it. Out of an unholy heart he can produce grace. Oh! make David’s prayer your…