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

²⁰ Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

⁹ Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

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

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!

³ They are all gone aside; they are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one.

⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

¹⁰ If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

² wherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;

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:--

²² But the scriptures shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

¹⁸ For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good `is' not.

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

²⁹ Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

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

² Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?

³⁶ If they sin against thee (for there is no man that sinneth not), and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive unto a land far off or near;

⁴⁶ If they sin against thee (for there is no man that sinneth not), and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive unto the land of the enemy, far off or near;