Jeremiah 17:9
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9
“The heart is deceitful above all things
And it is [a]extremely sick;
Who can understand it fully and know its secret motives?(A)
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 17:9 Lit incurable.
Matthew 15:19
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19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts and plans, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, slanders (verbal abuse, irreverent speech, blaspheming).
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Romans 7:18-20
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18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh [my human nature, my worldliness—my sinful capacity]. For the willingness [to do good] is present in me, but the doing of good is not. 19 For the good that I want to do, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want to do, I am no longer the one doing it [that is, it is not me that acts], but the sin [nature] which lives in me.
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