14 “What are mortals, that they could be pure,
    or those born of woman,(A) that they could be righteous?(B)

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14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

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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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How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

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

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Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

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You have neither heard nor understood;(A)
    from of old your ears(B) have not been open.
Well do I know how treacherous(C) you are;
    you were called a rebel(D) from birth.

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Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

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Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit[a] gives birth to spirit.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. John 3:6 Or but spirit

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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