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 shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

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

³ Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

¹² Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

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

⁵ Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.

⁶ How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?

⁸ So then 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 dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

³⁵ And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee 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 an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth: