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

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

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

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

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The wicked go astray from the womb;
    they err from their birth, speaking lies.(A)

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

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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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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 are mortals, that they can be clean?
    Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?(A)
15 God puts no trust even in his holy ones,
    and the heavens are not clean in his sight;(B)
16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,
    one who drinks iniquity like water!(C)

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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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What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what 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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Footnotes

  1. John 3:6 Or but spirit

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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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 when the Lord smelled the pleasing odor, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of humans, for the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth; nor will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.(A)

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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