When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth, for she said, “God has appointed for me another offspring instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.”
among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.
How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous? Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight; how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
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