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12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
    there is no one who shows kindness;
        there is not even one.”

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They have all gone astray; they are all alike perverse;
    there is no one who does good,
    no, not one.(A)

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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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We have all become like one who is unclean,
    and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth.
We all fade like a leaf,
    and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.(A)

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The way of peace they do not know,
    and there is no justice in their ways.
Their roads they have made crooked;
    no one who walks in them knows peace.(A)

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All we like sheep have gone astray;
    we have all turned to our own way,
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all.(A)

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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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25 For you were going astray like sheep, but now you have returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.[a](A)

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  1. 2.25 Or lives

11 Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful[a] to[b] you and to me.

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  1. 11 The name Onesimus means useful or beneficial
  2. 11 Other ancient authorities read both to

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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For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God— not the result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we may walk in them.(A)

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31 God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.(A)

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16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers and sisters. 17 Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.[a](A)

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  1. 1.17 Other ancient authorities read variation due to a shadow of turning

13 while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Savior,[a] Jesus Christ.(A) 14 He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.(B)

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  1. 2.13 Or of the great God and our Savior

Shining as Lights in the World

12 Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed me, not only in my presence but much more now in my absence, work on your own salvation with fear and trembling,(A) 13 for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

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30 As for this worthless slave, throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’(A)

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13 for my people have committed two evils:
    they have forsaken me,
the fountain of living water,
    and dug out cisterns for themselves,
cracked cisterns
    that can hold no water.(A)

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Psalm 53

Denunciation of Godlessness

To the leader: according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.

Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.”
    They are corrupt; they commit abominable acts;
    there is no one who does good.(A)

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they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; they have cast for themselves an image of a calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’ ”(A)

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And the Lord was sorry that he had made humans on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.(A) So the Lord said, “I will blot out from the earth the humans I have created—people together with animals and creeping things and birds of the air—for I am sorry that I have made them.”

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