They have all fallen away; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.
All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”
We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return. I have paid attention and listened, but they have not spoken rightly; no man relents of his evil, saying, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone turns to his own course, like a horse plunging headlong into battle.
Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.
Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy.”
If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
those who have turned back from following the Lord, who do not seek the Lord or inquire of him.”
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!
So all the men of Israel withdrew from David and followed Sheba the son of Bichri. But the men of Judah followed their king steadfastly from the Jordan to Jerusalem.
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