Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure? Behold, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his eyes; how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!”
And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.
You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning:
When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
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