Behold, [the wicked] has travailed with unrighteousness; he has conceived trouble, and has brought forth iniquity.

None speaks justly, neither is there true judgment; they trust in vanities, and speak empty [words]; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity.

They have hatched vipers' eggs, and weave a spider's web; and he that is going to eat of their eggs, having crushed an addled egg, has found also in it a basilisk.

For have you passed over ungodliness in silence, and reaped the sins of it? You have eaten false fruit; for you has trusted in your sins, in the abundance of your power.

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for what a man sows, this also he will reap.

For he who sows to his flesh, from his own flesh will reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap everlasting life.

Then lust, when it conceives, gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.