Romans 3:10-18

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¹⁰as it is written:

^(A)“None is righteous, no, not one;
¹¹    no one understands;
    no one seeks for God.
¹²All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
    no one does good,
    not even one.”
¹³^(B)“Their throat is ^(C)an open grave;
    they use their tongues to deceive.”
^(D)“The venom of asps is under their lips.”
¹⁴    ^(E)“Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
¹⁵^(F)“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
¹⁶    in their paths are ruin and misery,
¹⁷and ^(G)the way of peace they have not known.”
¹⁸    ^(H)“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

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Ephesians 2:1-3

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By Grace Through Faith

2 ^(A)And you were ^(B)dead in the trespasses and sins ²^(C)in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following ^(D)the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in ^(E)the sons of disobedience— ³among whom we all once lived in ^(F)the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body^[a] and the mind, and ^(G)were by nature ^(H)children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.^[b]