23 (A)Can the Ethiopian change his skin,
Or the leopard his spots?
Then you as well can (B)do good
Who are accustomed to doing evil.

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“The (A)heart is more (B)deceitful than all else
And is desperately (C)sick;
Who can understand it?
10 I, the Lord, (D)search the heart,
I test the [a]mind,
(E)To give to each person according to his ways,
According to the [b]results of his deeds.

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  1. Jeremiah 17:10 Lit kidneys
  2. Jeremiah 17:10 Lit fruit

10 as it is written:

(A)There is no righteous person, not even one;
11 There is no one who understands,
There is no one who seeks out God;
12 They have all turned aside, together they have become [a]corrupt;
There is no one who does good,
There is not even one.”
13 (B)Their throat is an open grave,
With their tongues they keep deceiving,”
(C)The venom of [b]asps is under their lips”;
14 (D)Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness”;
15 (E)Their feet are swift to shed blood,
16 Destruction and misery are in their paths,
17 And they have not known the way of peace.”
18 (F)There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

19 Now we know that whatever the (G)Law says, it speaks to (H)those who are [c]under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and (I)all the world may become accountable to God;

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  1. Romans 3:12 Or depraved
  2. Romans 3:13 I.e., venomous snakes
  3. Romans 3:19 Lit in

23 for all [a](A)have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

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  1. Romans 3:23 Or sinned

14 But [a]a (A)natural person (B)does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are (C)foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 2:14 Or an unspiritual

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