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—
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous? Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight; how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!
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.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.
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