Ecclesiastes 7:29
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29 See, this alone I found, that (A)God made man upright, but (B)they have sought out many schemes.
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Jeremiah 4:22
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22 “For (A)my people are foolish;
they know me not;
they are stupid children;
they have no understanding.
(B)They are ‘wise’—in doing evil!
But how to do good they know not.”
Titus 3:3
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3 For (A)we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
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Genesis 3:6-7
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6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise,[a] she took of its fruit (A)and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, (B)and he ate. 7 (C)Then the eyes of both were opened, (D)and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.
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- Genesis 3:6 Or to give insight
Genesis 1:26-27
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26 Then God said, (A)“Let us make man[a] in our image, (B)after our likeness. And (C)let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
(D)male and female he created them.
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- Genesis 1:26 The Hebrew word for man (adam) is the generic term for mankind and becomes the proper name Adam
Psalm 106:39
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Psalm 106:29
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29 they provoked the Lord to anger with their deeds,
and a plague broke out among them.
Genesis 5:1
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Adam's Descendants to Noah
5 This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, (A)he made him in the likeness of God.
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Ephesians 2:2-3
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2 (A)in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following (B)the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in (C)the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in (D)the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body[a] and the mind, and (E)were by nature (F)children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.[b]
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- Ephesians 2:3 Greek flesh
- Ephesians 2:3 Greek like the rest
Romans 3:9-19
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No One Is Righteous
9 What then? Are we Jews[a] any better off?[b] No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both (A)Jews and (B)Greeks, are (C)under sin, 10 as it is written:
(D)“None is righteous, no, not one;
11 no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”
13 (E)“Their throat is (F)an open grave;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
(G)“The venom of asps is under their lips.”
14 (H)“Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
15 (I)“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 in their paths are ruin and misery,
17 and (J)the way of peace they have not known.”
18 (K)“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
19 Now we know that whatever (L)the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, (M)so that every mouth may be stopped, and (N)the whole world may be held accountable to God.
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- Romans 3:9 Greek Are we
- Romans 3:9 Or at any disadvantage?
Romans 1:21-32
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21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they (A)became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 (B)Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and (C)exchanged the glory of (D)the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore (E)God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to (F)the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for (G)a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, (H)who is blessed forever! Amen.
26 For this reason (I)God gave them up to (J)dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, (K)men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, (L)God gave them up to (M)a debased mind to do (N)what ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know (O)God's righteous decree that those who practice such things (P)deserve to die, they not only do them but (Q)give approval to those who practice them.
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Acts 7:40-43
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40 saying to Aaron, (A)‘Make for us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’ 41 And (B)they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and (C)were rejoicing in (D)the works of their hands. 42 But (E)God turned away and (F)gave them over to worship (G)the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:
(H)“‘Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices,
(I)during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
43 You took up the tent of (J)Moloch
and the star of your god Rephan,
the images that you made to worship;
and I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’
Mark 7:8-9
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8 You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”
9 And he said to them, “You have a fine way of (A)rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!
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Ezekiel 22:6-13
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6 “Behold, (A)the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood. 7 Father and mother (B)are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner (C)suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow (D)are wronged in you. 8 (E)You have despised my holy things and (F)profaned my Sabbaths. 9 (G)There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you (H)who eat on the mountains; (I)they commit lewdness in your midst. 10 In you (J)men uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity. 11 (K)One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; (L)another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; (M)another in you violates his sister, his father's daughter. 12 In you (N)they take bribes to shed blood; (O)you take interest and profit[a] and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but (P)me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.
13 “Behold, (Q)I strike my hand at (R)the dishonest gain that you have made, and at (S)the blood that has been in your midst.
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- Ezekiel 22:12 That is, profit that comes from charging interest to the poor (compare Leviticus 25:36)
Jeremiah 2:12-13
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12 Be appalled, (A)O heavens, at this;
be shocked, be utterly desolate,
declares the Lord,
13 for my people have committed two evils:
(B)they have forsaken (C)me,
the fountain of (D)living waters,
and hewed out cisterns for themselves,
broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Psalm 99:8
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8 O Lord our God, you answered them;
you were (A)a forgiving God to them,
but (B)an avenger of their wrongdoings.
Genesis 11:4-6
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4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower (A)with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” 5 And (B)the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. 6 And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.
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Genesis 6:11-12
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11 Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God (A)saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, (B)for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
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Genesis 6:5-6
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5 (A)The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every (B)intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And (C)the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it (D)grieved him to his heart.
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