They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and bowed down to it and sacrificed to it, and said, This is your god, O Israel, that brought you up out of the land of Egypt!

They have all turned aside, together they have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, no, not one.

Lo, this only I have found, that God has made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, each one to his own way; and Jehovah has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their paths. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them shall not know peace.

For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of Living Waters, to hew out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

among whom also we all formerly conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others;

For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

And God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was extremely good. Thus, the evening and the morning: Day Six.

And Jehovah regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved to His heart.

And Jehovah said, I will obliterate man whom I have created from off the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and flying creatures of the heavens, for I regret having made them.

And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

who once was worthless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.

i1 [To the chief Musician. Mahalath. Maschil. A Psalm of David.] i0 par The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity; there is no one who does good.

For there is not a just man on earth who does good and does not sin.

But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like a menstruation cloth. And we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

For by grace you are saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, cultivate your salvation with fear and trembling;

for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all lawlessness and purify a people for His own possession, zealous unto good works.

Do not be led astray, my beloved brethren.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of Lights, with whom there is no change or shadow of turning.