Psalm 51:5
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5 For I was born a sinner—
yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.
Job 14:4
New Living Translation
4 Who can bring purity out of an impure person?
No one!
Psalm 58:3
New Living Translation
3 These wicked people are born sinners;
even from birth they have lied and gone their own way.
Romans 5:12
New Living Translation
Adam and Christ Contrasted
12 When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned.
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Ephesians 2:3
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3 All of us used to live that way, following the passionate desires and inclinations of our sinful nature. By our very nature we were subject to God’s anger, just like everyone else.
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John 3:6
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6 Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life.[a]
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- 3:6 Greek what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Job 15:14-16
New Living Translation
14 Can any mortal be pure?
Can anyone born of a woman be just?
15 Look, God does not even trust the angels.[a]
Even the heavens are not absolutely pure in his sight.
16 How much less pure is a corrupt and sinful person
with a thirst for wickedness!
Footnotes
- 15:15 Hebrew the holy ones.
Genesis 5:3
New Living Translation
3 When Adam was 130 years old, he became the father of a son who was just like him—in his very image. He named his son Seth.
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Genesis 8:21
New Living Translation
21 And the Lord was pleased with the aroma of the sacrifice and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of the human race, even though everything they think or imagine is bent toward evil from childhood. I will never again destroy all living things.
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