Genesis 3:17-19

New International Version

¹⁷To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’^(A)

“Cursed^(B) is the ground^(C) because of you;
    through painful toil^(D) you will eat food from it
    all the days of your life.^(E)
¹⁸It will produce thorns and thistles^(F) for you,
    and you will eat the plants of the field.^(G)
¹⁹By the sweat of your brow^(H)
    you will eat your food^(I)
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”^(J)

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Genesis 6:5

New International Version

⁵The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth,^(A) and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.^(B)

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Genesis 6:5 in all English translations

Genesis 8:21

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²¹The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma^(A) and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground^(B) because of humans, even though^[a] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood.^(C) And never again will I destroy^(D) all living creatures,^(E) as I have done.

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Genesis 8:21 in all English translations

Psalm 51:5

New International Version

⁵Surely I was sinful^(A) at birth,^(B)
sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

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Psalm 51:5 in all English translations

Jeremiah 17:9

New International Version

⁹The heart^(A) is deceitful above all things
and beyond cure.
Who can understand it?

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Jeremiah 17:9 in all English translations

Mark 7:21-23

New International Version

²¹For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, ²²adultery, greed,^(A) malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. ²³All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”

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