(A)Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me.

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

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Death in Adam, Life in Christ(A)

12 Therefore, just as (B)through one man sin entered the world, and (C)death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—

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Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ

12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man,(A) and death through sin,(B) and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned(C)

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

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Who can bring what is pure(A) from the impure?(B)
    No one!(C)

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(A)The wicked are estranged from the womb;
They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

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Even from birth the wicked go astray;
    from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.

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(A)among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in (B)the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and (C)were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

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All of us also lived among them at one time,(A) gratifying the cravings of our flesh[a](B) and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 2:3 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.

14 “What(A) is man, that he could be pure?
And he who is born of a woman, that he could be righteous?
15 (B)If God puts no trust in His saints,
And the heavens are not pure in His sight,
16 (C)How much less man, who is abominable and filthy,
(D)Who drinks iniquity like water!

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14 “What are mortals, that they could be pure,
    or those born of woman,(A) that they could be righteous?(B)
15 If God places no trust in his holy ones,(C)
    if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,(D)
16 how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt,(E)
    who drink up evil(F) like water!(G)

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That which is born of the flesh is (A)flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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

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  1. John 3:6 Or but spirit

And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son (A)in his own likeness, after his image, and (B)named him Seth.

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When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image;(A) and he named him Seth.(B)

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21 And the Lord smelled (A)a soothing aroma. Then the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again (B)curse the ground for man’s sake, although the (C)imagination[a] of man’s heart is evil from his youth; (D)nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.

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  1. Genesis 8:21 intent or thought

21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma(A) and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground(B) because of humans, even though[a] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood.(C) And never again will I destroy(D) all living creatures,(E) as I have done.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 8:21 Or humans, for