How then

Job 4:17-19
Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker? . . .

Job 9:2
"Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

Job 15:14-16
What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous? . . .

Psalm 130:3
If you, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

Psalm 143:2
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.

Romans 3:19, 20
Now we know that whatever the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. . . .

Romans 5:1
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

how can

Job 14:3, 4
Do You open your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You? . . .

Psalm 51:5
Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

Zechariah 13:1
On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.

Ephesians 2:3
We all lived among them at one time in the cravings of our flesh, indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

1 Corinthians 6:11
And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,