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Example sentences for "filthy rags"

  • But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags,” &c.

  • 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.

  • God's word hath told us, that the best of our righteousnesses are not better than filthy rags.

  • Are you not ashamed to affirm that the best works of the Spirit of Christ in his saints are as filthy rags?

  • Art not thou and you ashamed to affirm, that the best works of the Spirit of Christ in his saints are as filthy rags?

  • The grace which decked him in the best robe would not have shone so brightly, had he not been clad in filthy rags.

  • But hearty, loving obedience to God's own law is never regarded by Him "as filthy rags," but as a rich adorning.

  • And in all such cases men's own righteousness, in God's sight, is "as filthy rags.

  • There were several things brought it upon me, especially such sayings as these: "All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags" (Isa.

  • Again, as to righteousness, we read that "all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.

  • It is not said that all our wickednesses, merely, are as filthy rags.

  • Our very efforts after life do but prove us to be dead, and our very efforts after righteousness do but prove us to be enwrapped in filthy rags.

  • Pharisee as he was, he might have learned from the prophet Isaiah the true state of the case, "We are all as an unclean thing; and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    buried alive; could discover; filthy lucre; filthy rags; fully expected; ils ont; just didn; killed them; labor unions; life away; light step; little likely; magnetic telegraph; not guilty; political unity; remarkable feature; reveals himself; sending back; sitting alone; this family; thou wast; translation from; where the public mind shall rest