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When Adam had lived one hundred thirty years, he became the father of a son in his likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.(A)

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25 Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth,[a] for she said, “God has appointed for me another child instead of Abel, because Cain killed him.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 4.25 In Heb Seth resembles the word for appointed

All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, doing the will of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else,(A)

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39 Not all flesh is alike, but there is one flesh for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.

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Adam and Christ

12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned(A)

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What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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35 The angel said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born[a] will be holy; he will be called Son of God.(A)

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  1. 1.35 Other ancient authorities add of you

Indeed, I was born guilty,
    a sinner when my mother conceived me.(A)

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The Lord looks down from heaven on humankind
    to see if there are any who are wise,
    who seek after God.(A)

They have all gone astray; they are all alike perverse;
    there is no one who does good,
    no, not one.(B)

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How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
    How can one born of woman be pure?(A)

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14 What are mortals, that they can be clean?
    Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?(A)
15 God puts no trust even in his holy ones,
    and the heavens are not clean in his sight;(B)
16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,
    one who drinks iniquity like water!(C)

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Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
    No one can.(A)

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