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Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
    No one can.(A)

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What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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14 What are mortals, that they can be clean?
    Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?(A)

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All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, doing the will of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else,(A)

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and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

But you are not in the flesh; you are in the Spirit,[a] since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 8.9 Or spirit

Indeed, I was born guilty,
    a sinner when my mother conceived me.(A)

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Adam and Christ

12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned(A)

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How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
    How can one born of woman be pure?(A)
If even the moon is not bright
    and the stars are not pure in his sight,(B)
how much less a mortal, who is a maggot,
    and a human being, who is a worm!”(C)

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35 The angel said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born[a] will be holy; he will be called Son of God.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1.35 Other ancient authorities add of you

You sweep them away; they are like a dream,
    like grass that is renewed in the morning;(A)

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When Adam had lived one hundred thirty years, he became the father of a son in his likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.(A)

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