Job 15:14
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14 What are mortals, that they can be clean?
Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?(A)
Ecclesiastes 7:20
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20 Surely there is no one on earth so righteous as to do good without ever sinning.(A)
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Proverbs 20:9
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9 Who can say, “I have made my heart clean;
I am pure from my sin”?(A)
Job 14:4
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4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
No one can.(A)
Job 25:4-6
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4 How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
How can one born of woman be pure?(A)
5 If even the moon is not bright
and the stars are not pure in his sight,(B)
6 how much less a mortal, who is a maggot,
and a human being, who is a worm!”(C)
Romans 7:18
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18 For I know that the good does not dwell within me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do the good lies close at hand, but not the ability.(A)
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Psalm 14:3
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3 They have all gone astray; they are all alike perverse;
there is no one who does good,
no, not one.(A)
1 Kings 8:46
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46 “If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near,(A)
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1 John 1:8-10
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8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.(A) 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.(B)
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Ephesians 2:2-3
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2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world,[a] following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient.[b](A) 3 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,(B)
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Galatians 3:22
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22 But the scripture has imprisoned all things under the power of sin, so that what was promised through the faith of Jesus Christ[a] might be given to those who believe.(A)
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- 3.22 Or through faith in Jesus Christ
John 3:6
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6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
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Ecclesiastes 7:29
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29 See, this alone I found, that God made human beings straightforward, but they have devised many schemes.(A)
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Psalm 51:5
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5 Indeed, I was born guilty,
a sinner when my mother conceived me.(A)
Job 9:2
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2 “Indeed, I know that this is so,
but how can a mortal be just before God?(A)
2 Chronicles 6:36
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36 “If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far off or near,(A)
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