Ezekiel 28:15
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15 You were blameless in your ways
from the day that you were created,
until iniquity was found in you.(A)
Ezekiel 28:17-18
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17 Your heart was proud because of your beauty;
you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor.
I cast you to the ground;
I exposed you before kings,
to feast their eyes on you.(A)
18 By the multitude of your iniquities,
in the unrighteousness of your trade,
you profaned your sanctuaries.
So I brought out fire from within you;
it consumed you,
and I turned you to ashes on the earth
in the sight of all who saw you.(B)
Romans 7:9
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9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived
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Genesis 1:26-27
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26 Then God said, “Let us make humans[a] in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the wild animals of the earth[b] and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”(A)
27 So God created humans[c] in his image,
in the image of God he created them;[d]
male and female he created them.(B)
2 Peter 2:4
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4 For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned but cast them into hell and committed them to chains[a] of deepest darkness to be kept until the judgment;(A)
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- 2.4 Other ancient authorities read pits
Ezekiel 28:12
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12 Mortal, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him: Thus says the Lord God:
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- 28.12 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Ezekiel 28:3-6
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3 You are indeed wiser than Daniel;[a]
no secret is hidden from you;(A)
4 by your wisdom and your understanding
you have amassed wealth for yourself
and have gathered gold and silver
into your treasuries.(B)
5 By your great wisdom in trade
you have increased your wealth,
and your heart has become proud in your wealth.(C)
6 Therefore thus says the Lord God:
Because you compare your mind
with the mind of a god,(D)
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- 28.3 Or Danel
Ezekiel 27:3-4
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3 and say to Tyre, which sits at the entrance to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coastlands: Thus says the Lord God:
O Tyre, you have said,
“I am perfect in beauty.”(A)
4 Your borders are in the heart of the seas;
your builders made perfect your beauty.(B)
Lamentations 5:16
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16 The crown has fallen from our head;
woe to us, for we have sinned!
Isaiah 14:12
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12 How you are fallen from heaven,
O Morning Star, son of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
you who laid the nations low!(A)
Ecclesiastes 7:29
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29 See, this alone I found, that God made human beings straightforward, but they have devised many schemes.(A)
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Proverbs 14:34
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34 Righteousness exalts a nation,
but sin is a reproach to any people.(A)
Genesis 6:5-6
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5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of humans was great in the earth and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.(A) 6 And the Lord was sorry that he had made humans on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.(B)
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Genesis 1:31
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31 God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.(A)
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