Isaiah 64:6
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6 (A)We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
(B)We all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Ezekiel 3:20
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20 (A)Again, if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, (B)and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. (C)Because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, (D)and his righteous deeds that he has done shall not be remembered, (E)but his blood I will require at your hand.
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Ezekiel 18:24
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24 (A)But when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice and does the same abominations that the wicked person does, shall he live? (B)None of the righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered; for (C)the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, for them he shall die.
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Ezekiel 33:13
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13 Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet (A)if he trusts in his righteousness and does injustice, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his injustice that he has done he shall die.
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Romans 1:16-17
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The Righteous Shall Live by Faith
16 For (A)I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is (B)the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew (C)first and also to (D)the Greek. 17 For in it (E)the righteousness of God is revealed (F)from faith for faith,[a] (G)as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”[b]
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- Romans 1:17 Or beginning and ending in faith
- Romans 1:17 Or The one who by faith is righteous shall live
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