All we like sheep have gone astray; everyone has gone astray in his way; and the Lord gave Him up for our sins.

and we have all become as unclean, and all our righteousness is as a filthy rag; and we have fallen as leaves because of our iniquities; thus the wind shall carry us [away].

And there is none that calls upon Your name, or that remembers to take hold of You; for You have turned Your face away from us, and have delivered us up because of our sins.

we have committed iniquity, we have transgressed, and we have departed and turned aside from Your commandments and from Your judgments;

To you, O Lord, [belongs] righteousness, and to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off in all the earth, wherever You have scattered them, for the sin which they have committed.

To you, O Lord our God, [belong] compassion and forgiveness, whereas we have departed [from You.]

What then? Are we [any] better? Not at all. For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

There is none who understands; there is none who seeks God.

"Their throat is an opened grave; with their tongues they deceived"; " [the] poison of asps is under their lips";

Their feet are swift to shed blood;

And the way of peace they did not know.

Now we know that as many things as the law says, it speaks to those under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,

And such were some of you! But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

We [who are] Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by [the] faith of Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by [the] faith of Christ and not by [the] works of the law; because no flesh shall be justified by [the] works of the law.

But the Scripture has confined all under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, being deceived, being enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

For we have spent enough of our past lifetime to accomplish the will of the Gentiles--having walked in wantonness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.

If we claim that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If we claim that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

who, having become callous, gave themselves over to debauchery, for the working of uncleanness with utmost greediness.

who in the generations having gone by permitted all the Gentiles to walk in their ways.

So then these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now He commands all men everywhere to repent,

because He has appointed a day in which He is going to judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom He appointed, having given proof to all, by raising Him from the dead."

For just as you once were disobedient to God, but now you were shown mercy through their disobedience,

who formerly [were] not a people but now [are the] people of God, who had not received mercy, but now have received mercy.

Again, a new commandment I am writing to you, which [thing] is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.

that you put off, concerning your former way of life, the old man which is being corrupted according to the deceitful lusts,

and the anxieties of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things coming in choke out the word, and it becomes fruitless.

You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you desire to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own [resources], for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of the own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves,

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts,

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for [its] lusts.

I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall by no means fulfill the lust of the flesh.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

But those desiring to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many senseless and harmful lusts which sink men in destruction and perdition.

From where [come] wars and disputes among you? Is it not from here, from your lusts, which war in your members?

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend [it] in [gratifying] your lusts.

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves [after] the former lusts, [as you did in] your ignorance;

Beloved, I implore you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from the lusts of the flesh which war against the soul;

that he no longer should live the remaining time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

For when they speak haughty [words] of emptiness, they entice through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, those who are escaping from those who are living in error,

Because everything that is in the world--the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not from the Father but is from the world.

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaks puffed up words, flattering people to gain advantage.

how they told you that in the last time there would be mockers, walking according to their own ungodly lusts.

Therefore the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it does not submit to the law of God, nor indeed can it.

And those that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are: adultery, fornication, immorality, lewdness,

envies, murders, drinking bouts, revelries, and the like; which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

And Adam lived two hundred and thirty years, and begot [a son] after his [own] form, and after his own image, and he called his name Seth.

[ 6:6] And the Lord God, having seen that the wicked actions of men were multiplied upon the earth, and that everyone in his heart was intently brooding over evil continually,

And the Lord God smelled an aroma of sweetness, and the Lord God having considered, said, I will never again curse the earth, because of the works of men, because the imagination of man is intently bent upon evil things from his youth, I will never again smite all living flesh as I have done.

For who shall be pure from uncleanness? Not even one;

For who, being a mortal, [is such] that he shall be blameless? Or [who that is] born of a woman, that he should be just?

Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.

For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? Or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?

For behold, I was conceived in iniquities, and in sins did my mother conceive me.

For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees whose name [was] Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless someone is born of water and of Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death passed to all men, because all sinned--

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

And the gift is not as by one having sinned. For the judgment [which came] from one [offense resulted] in condemnation, but the free gift from many offenses resulted in justification.

Therefore, as through one [man's] offense [judgment came] to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one [Man's] righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but [how] to do the good, I do not find.

We [who are] Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by [the] faith of Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by [the] faith of Christ and not by [the] works of the law; because no flesh shall be justified by [the] works of the law.

in which you once walked according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit which is now working in the sons of disobedience,

But what if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make known His power, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath having been prepared for destruction,

What then? Are we [any] better? Not at all. For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

even the righteousness of God, through [the] faithfulness of Jesus Christ, to all and upon all those that believe. For there is no distinction;

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if you did indeed receive [what you have], why do you boast as though you did not receive it?