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.

And you being dead in trespasses and sins,

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;

And you, who once were alienated and hostile in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled

in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has been released from sin,

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.

How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity; and those who scorn desire their scorning; and fools hate knowledge?

Turn back at my reproof; behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you; I will make my words known to you.

Understand wisdom, you simple ones; and you fools, be of an understanding heart.

Forsake simplicity, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

He answered and said, I will not, but afterward he regretted it and went.

Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder toward the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

But as he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from Heaven.

And he said, Who are You, Sir? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you persecute. It is hard for you to kick against the goads.

Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the Heavenly vision,

but declared first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and do works befitting repentance.

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,

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

He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside, so that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is this not a lie in my right hand?

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock; whose dwelling is high, saying in your heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

And He said: Take heed that you not be led astray. For many will come in My name, saying, I AM, and, The time is here. Therefore do not go after them.

For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but beguiles his own heart, this one's religion is vain.

So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who leads the whole world astray; he was cast out onto the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

And he leads astray those who dwell on the earth by means of those signs which he was granted to do in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.

Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Everyone practicing sin is a slave of sin.

But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you.

But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

being filled with every unrighteousness, sexual perversion, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, depravity; whisperers,

without understanding, untrustworthy, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you do not wish; lest there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, evil speakings, whisperings, conceits, commotions;

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

without natural affection, unyielding, slanderers, without self-control, savage, despisers of good,

For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity and hate is found.

And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every unclean spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird!