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

²⁰ For there is not a just 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 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?

³ They are all gone aside, they are all 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 just 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 in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

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.

²² But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of 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 how to perform that which is good I find not.

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

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

⁵ Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

² I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

³⁶ If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives 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 captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;