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If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth.

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If we claim to be without sin,(A) we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.(B)

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If someone claims, “I know God,” but doesn’t obey God’s commandments, that person is a liar and is not living in the truth.

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Whoever says, “I know him,”(A) but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person.(B)

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Indeed, we all make many mistakes. For if we could control our tongues, we would be perfect and could also control ourselves in every other way.

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We all stumble(A) in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say(B) is perfect,(C) able to keep their whole body in check.(D)

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23 For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.

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23 for all have sinned(A) and fall short of the glory of God,

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14 Can any mortal be pure?
    Can anyone born of a woman be just?

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14 “What are mortals, that they could be pure,
    or those born of woman,(A) that they could be righteous?(B)

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All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
    We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on him
    the sins of us all.

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We all, like sheep, have gone astray,(A)
    each of us has turned to our own way;(B)
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity(C) of us all.

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20 Not a single person on earth is always good and never sins.

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20 Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous,(A)
    no one who does what is right and never sins.(B)

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Who can say, “I have cleansed my heart;
    I am pure and free from sin”?

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Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure;(A)
    I am clean and without sin”?(B)

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Don’t put your servant on trial,
    for no one is innocent before you.

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Do not bring your servant into judgment,
    for no one living is righteous(A) before you.

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If you think you are too important to help someone, you are only fooling yourself. You are not that important.

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If anyone thinks they are something(A) when they are not, they deceive themselves.(B)

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Who can bring purity out of an impure person?
    No one!

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Who can bring what is pure(A) from the impure?(B)
    No one!(C)

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10 If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that his word has no place in our hearts.

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10 If we claim we have not sinned,(A) we make him out to be a liar(B) and his word is not in us.(C)

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We are all infected and impure with sin.
    When we display our righteous deeds,
    they are nothing but filthy rags.
Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall,
    and our sins sweep us away like the wind.

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All of us have become like one who is unclean,(A)
    and all our righteous(B) acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,(C)
    and like the wind our sins sweep us away.(D)

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