²¹ For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

¹ Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

² You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.

³ You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

²¹ envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

⁷ because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

⁸ Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

¹⁴ Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

⁴ Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?

²² Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

⁴ haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

² that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

³ For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

¹⁴ But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

¹⁵ Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

⁸ But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

⁵ For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

⁴ While you kept it, didn't it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn't it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven't lied to men, but to God."

¹⁵ He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

²⁵ "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.{TR reads "self-indulgence" instead of "unrighteousness"}

²⁶ You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside of it may become clean also.

²⁷ "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

²⁸ Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

¹⁹ For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

¹⁰ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: It shall happen in that day, that things shall come into your mind, and you shall devise an evil device:

⁵ Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

²¹ Yahweh smelled the sweet savor. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.

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

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

¹⁵ Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones; Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

¹⁶ How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, A man who drinks iniquity like water!

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

¹ > The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.

³ They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is none who does good, no, not one.

¹ > The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

³ Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

² No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

³ The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

²³ Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it is the wellspring of life.

²⁵ Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, But he will keep the widow's borders intact.

⁷ Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

³ For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.