Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
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It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
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Philippians 3:6:
As for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.
(NIV)
As to my zeal, I was a persecutor of the church, and by the Law's standard of righteousness (supposed justice, uprightness, and right standing with God) I was proven to be blameless and no fault was found with me.
(AMP)
Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
(KJV)
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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.
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I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
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James 1:25:
But those who look intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continue in it – not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it – they will be blessed in what they do.
(NIV)
But he who looks carefully into the faultless law, the [law] of liberty, and is faithful to it and perseveres in looking into it, being not a heedless listener who forgets but an active doer [who obeys], he shall be blessed in his doing (his life of obedience).
(AMP)
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
(KJV)
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James 1:27:
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
(NIV)
External religious worship [religion as it is expressed in outward acts] that is pure and unblemished in the sight of God the Father is this: to visit and help and care for the orphans and widows in their affliction and need, and to keep oneself unspotted and uncontaminated from the world.
(AMP)
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
(KJV)
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Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.
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