What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
Who can say, “I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin”?
For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure? Behold, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his eyes; how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!”
They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.
“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near,
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 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.
But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
“Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?
“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far or near,
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