When they sin against You (for there is no one who does not sin), and You have become angry with them and delivered them to the enemy, and they have taken them captive to the land of the enemy, far or near;

When they sin against You (for there is no one who does not sin), and You have become angry with them and delivered them to the enemy, and they have taken them captive to a land far or near;

Who can say, I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin?

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.

As it is written: There is none righteous, no, not one;

I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one desiring to do good.

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

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.

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.

Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. Behold, how large a forest a little fire kindles.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. Thus the tongue is set among our members, defiling the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by Gehenna.

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.

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking guile.

He who watches his mouth keeps his life; he who opens his lips wide shall have destruction.

For He who would love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.

But let patience have its perfecting work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.

Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man complete in Christ Jesus.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, greets you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand complete and full-grown in all the will of God;

make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.