⁸ The way of the guilty is devious, But the conduct of the innocent is upright.

¹⁵ Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:

³ for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?

² in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit who now works in the children 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.

¹⁵ To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

¹⁴ who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

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

⁵ not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

²² Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

²³ having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

²⁹ If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.

³ Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

⁹ He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

³³ "Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

¹² God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

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!

² Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, To see if there were any who did understand, Who did seek after God.

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

²⁶ Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, But the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.

¹² There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, Yet are not washed from their filthiness.

²⁹ Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.

³ This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

¹⁰ Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.

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.

⁶ Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.