⁴ Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

⁶ That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

⁵ Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.

¹⁴ What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

³ among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--

¹² Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:--

⁴ How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

⁵ Behold, even the moon hath no brightness, And the stars are not pure in his sight:

⁶ How much less man, that is a worm! And the son of man, that is a worm!

⁸ and they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

⁹ But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

³⁵ And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee: wherefore also the holy thing which is begotten shall be called the Son of God.

⁵ Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

³ And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat `a son' in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: