Proverbs 30:12 Authorized (King James) Version (AKJ) There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

There was a generation prior to this proverb that embodied the truth in this saying. There have been many generations since to do likewise.

Resist the temptation to use this verse as a means of attacking those living today that embody the truth in it. Doing so makes this a political argument because the laws of men have been changed to allow that which God would deem unholy to be legal.

Since we are Kingdom dwellers, meaning the Lord of our lives dwells within us, then we must accept that our frail human bodies live in a world that is ruled by the prince of the power of the air. Satan has not yet been chained up and the keys to death removed from him.

Once we take spiritual matters into our own hands and react out of emotional disgust for what we see being done in the world, we have given into the temptation of Satan. Placing spiritual matters in his court pulls us out of Kingdom living and into the court of popular opinion. We will win no one to Christ by arguing in that court.

John 12:30-32 English Standard Version

³⁰ Jesus answered, “This voice has come for your sake, not mine. ³¹ Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out. ³² And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

We have been drawn to Christ and there is no place for Satan here in our hearts. God protects us here but when we enter into the realm of politics, we are playing Satan’s game. We have succumbed to his temptation.

Obey the law of love that dwells in our hearts, keep Satan at bay. 

1 Corinthians 13:11-13 21st Century King James Version

¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. ¹² For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then shall I know, even as also I am known. ¹³ And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

21st Century King James Version (KJ21)

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Other versions translate glass as mirror. What is a mirror if not a glass that is coated on the back side in order to see our own reflection? We will never see Jesus in the mirror. In this version it describes the glass as darkly and what is darkness? Sin?

Since the obstacle to seeing Jesus on the other side of this glass is our sins, no amount of cleaning the glass on our side will remove the sin on the other side. It is Jesus who forgives sins and cleans His side of the glass allowing us to see Him a little better as sin in our lives is removed.

But we continue to sin and that darkens His side of the glass. If we cannot see Him more clearly, it is our sinning that interferes. He will not clean His side unless we repent and seek forgiveness.

Ephesians 1:4-5 Authorized (King James) Version

⁴ according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: ⁵ having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

KJV reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press, the Crown’s patentee in the UK.

Being holy does two things. It cleans our side of the glass and keeps from darkening His side of the glass.