(SEE 9:1)

Nothing clean can ever come from anything as unclean as human beings.

Can anyone be righteous or pure in God's sight?

Then what about a human being, that worm, that insect? What is a human life worth in God's eyes?

"When your people sin against you---and there is no one who does not sin---and in your anger you let their enemies defeat them and take them as prisoners to some other land, even if that land is far away,

"When your people sin against you---and there is no one who does not sin---and in your anger you let their enemies defeat them and take them as prisoners to some other land, even if that land is far away,

But they have all gone wrong; they are all equally bad. Not one of them does what is right, not a single one.

I have been evil from the day I was born; from the time I was conceived, I have been sinful.

Can anyone really say that his conscience is clear, that he has gotten rid of his sin?

There is no one on earth who does what is right all the time and never makes a mistake.

This is all that I have learned: God made us plain and simple, but we have made ourselves very complicated.

A person is born physically of human parents, but is born spiritually of the Spirit.

I know that good does not live in me---that is, in my human nature. For even though the desire to do good is in me, I am not able to do it.

But the scripture says that the whole world is under the power of sin; and so the gift which is promised on the basis of faith in Jesus Christ is given to those who believe.

At that time you followed the world's evil way; you obeyed the ruler of the spiritual powers in space, the spirit who now controls the people who disobey God.

Actually all of us were like them and lived according to our natural desires, doing whatever suited the wishes of our own bodies and minds. In our natural condition we, like everyone else, were destined to suffer God's anger.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us.

If we say that we have not sinned, we make a liar out of God, and his word is not in us.