Psalm 51:5
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5 Indeed, I was born guilty,
a sinner when my mother conceived me.(A)
Romans 5:12
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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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Job 14:4
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4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
No one can.(A)
Psalm 58:3
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3 The wicked go astray from the womb;
they err from their birth, speaking lies.(A)
Ephesians 2:3
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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,(A)
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Job 15:14-16
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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)
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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Genesis 5:3
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3 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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Genesis 8:21
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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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