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

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

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

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

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Don’t put your servant on trial,
    for no one is innocent 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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Who can bring purity out of an impure person?
    No one!

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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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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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46 “If they sin against you—and who has never sinned?—you might become angry with them and let their enemies conquer them and take them captive to their land far away or near.

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These people always cause trouble. Their minds are corrupt, and they have turned their backs on the truth. To them, a show of godliness is just a way to become wealthy.

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How can a mortal be innocent before God?
    Can anyone born of a woman be pure?

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because the truth lives in us and will be with us forever.

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And you know that Jesus came to take away our sins, and there is no sin in him. Anyone who continues to live in him will not sin. But anyone who keeps on sinning does not know him or understand who he is.

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So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth.

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26 If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless.

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13 But evil people and impostors will flourish. They will deceive others and will themselves be deceived.

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18 Stop deceiving yourselves. If you think you are wise by this world’s standards, you need to become a fool to be truly wise.

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22 No amount of soap or lye can make you clean.
    I still see the stain of your guilt.
    I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!

Israel, an Unfaithful Wife

23 “You say, ‘That’s not true!
    I haven’t worshiped the images of Baal!’
But how can you say that?
    Go and look in any valley in the land!
Face the awful sins you have done.
    You are like a restless female camel
    desperately searching for a mate.

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36 “If they sin against you—and who has never sinned?—you might become angry with them and let their enemies conquer them and take them captive to a foreign land far away or near.

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22 But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves.

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