Question 88: Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?

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Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?

No mere man, since the fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments of God, but does daily break them in thought, word, and deed.

Scripture Proofs

Ecclesiastes 7:20

For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

1 John 1:8

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1 John 1:10

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

James 3:8

But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.