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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