⁵ Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

⁴ If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

³ The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.

¹² For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:

³ Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

²¹ And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.

¹⁴ What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

¹⁵ Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes;

¹⁶ How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

⁶ That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.

³ Adam had been living for a hundred and thirty years when he had a son like himself, after his image, and gave him the name of Seth: