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.

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.

And there is no one who calls upon Your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us, and have melted us away because of our iniquities.

we have sinned and have committed iniquity and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from Your commandments and from Your judgments.

O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us the shame of face, as it is this day to the men of Judah, and to those living in Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near and who are afar in all the lands where You have driven them for their unfaithfulness which they have trespassed against You.

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against Him.

What then? Do we surpass them? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

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

Their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips;

Their feet are swift to shed blood;

and the way of peace they have not known.

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be led astray. Neither prostitutes, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, 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 through the faith of Jesus Christ, even we believe into Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the Law; for by the works of the Law no flesh shall be justified.

But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by the faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those believing.

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, led astray, 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 in doing the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in licentiousness, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If we say 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 no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the emptiness of their mind,

who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to licentiousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

who in past generations allowed all nations to go in their own ways.

Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,

because He has established a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has appointed. He has given assurance of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.

For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience,

who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who did not have mercy but now have mercy.

Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.

that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which is corrupted according to the deceitful lusts,

and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts for other things entering in choke the Word, and it becomes unfruitful.

You are of the devil as your father, and the lusts of your father you purpose to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.

Therefore God also gives them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their 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, to fulfill its lusts.

I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not 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, heresies,

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

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

But those who purpose to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which plunge people into ruin and destruction.

Where do wars and fightings come from among you? Do they not come from your lusts that war in your members?

You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your lusts.

as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance;

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and sojourners, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,

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

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through wantonness, the ones who have actually escaped from those living in error.

For all that is in the world; the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life; is not of the Father but is of the world.

These are murmurers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and their mouths speak great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage.

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

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the Law of God, nor indeed can be.

So then, those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.

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

Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, sexual perversion, uncleanness, licentiousness,

envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of 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 one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and called his name Seth.

And Jehovah saw that the evil of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all day long.

And Jehovah smelled a soothing aroma. And Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground because of man, although the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again smite every living thing as I have done.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!

What is man, that he should be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

how much more abhorrent and corrupt is man, who drinks injustice like water!

How then can man be just before the Mighty God? Or how can one be pure who is born of a woman?

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual perversions, murders,

thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.

There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God.

Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God.

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to every person, because everyone sinned.

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

And the gift is not like it was through the one who sinned. For the judgment from one offense was unto condemnation, but the free gift from many offenses is unto justification.

Therefore, as through one man's offense judgment was to every person unto condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift is to every person unto justification of life.

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to desire is present with me, but how to perform what is 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 through the faith of Jesus Christ, even we believe into Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the Law; for by the works of the Law no flesh shall be justified.

in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,

What if God, determining to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath rendered fit unto destruction,

What then? Do we surpass them? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

even the righteousness of God, through the faith of Jesus Christ, to all and upon all who believe. For there is no difference;

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? Now if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?