When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son who was like him, and he named him Seth.

When the LORD saw how wicked everyone on earth was and how evil their thoughts were all the time,

God looked at the world and saw that it was evil, for the people were all living evil lives.

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

Can any human being be really pure? Can anyone be right with God?

And we drink evil as if it were water; yes, we are corrupt; we are worthless.

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

Create a pure heart in me, O God, and put a new and loyal spirit in me.

For when we lived according to our human nature, the sinful desires stirred up by the Law were at work in our bodies, and all we did ended in death.

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.

Thanks be to God, who does this through our Lord Jesus Christ! This, then, is my condition: on my own I can serve God's law only with my mind, while my human nature serves the law of sin.

There is no condemnation now for those who live in union with Christ Jesus.

God did this so that the righteous demands of the Law might be fully satisfied in us who live according to the Spirit, and not according to human nature.

Those who live as their human nature tells them to, have their minds controlled by what human nature wants. Those who live as the Spirit tells them to, have their minds controlled by what the Spirit wants.

And so people become enemies of God when they are controlled by their human nature; for they do not obey God's law, and in fact they cannot obey it.

But you do not live as your human nature tells you to; instead, you live as the Spirit tells you to---if, in fact, God's Spirit lives in you. Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

The first Adam, made of earth, came from the earth; the second Adam came from heaven.

Just as we wear the likeness of the man made of earth, so we will wear the likeness of the Man from heaven.

Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come.

What I say is this: let the Spirit direct your lives, and you will not satisfy the desires of the human nature.

If the Spirit leads you, then you are not subject to the Law.

in worship of idols and witchcraft. People become enemies and they fight; they become jealous, angry, and ambitious. They separate into parties and groups;

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.

In union with Christ you were circumcised, not with the circumcision that is made by human beings, but with the circumcision made by Christ, which consists of being freed from the power of this sinful self.

I will give them a new heart and a new mind. I will take away their stubborn heart of stone and will give them an obedient heart.

Then they will keep my laws and faithfully obey all my commands. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

I will give you a new heart and a new mind. I will take away your stubborn heart of stone and give you an obedient heart.

I will put my spirit in you and will see to it that you follow my laws and keep all the commands I have given you.

Those who live as their human nature tells them to, have their minds controlled by what human nature wants. Those who live as the Spirit tells them to, have their minds controlled by what the Spirit wants.

But you do not live as your human nature tells you to; instead, you live as the Spirit tells you to---if, in fact, God's Spirit lives in you. Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

But he who joins himself to the Lord becomes spiritually one with him.

For what our human nature wants is opposed to what the Spirit wants, and what the Spirit wants is opposed to what our human nature wants. These two are enemies, and this means that you cannot do what you want to do.

Those who are children of God do not continue to sin, for God's very nature is in them; and because God is their Father, they cannot continue to sin.