¹⁹ And Jesus said to him, `Why me dost thou call good? no one `is' good, except One -- God;

¹⁷ every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

⁴ Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

¹⁴ What `is' man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?

¹⁵ Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.

¹⁶ Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.

⁴ And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure -- born of a woman?

³⁵ And the messenger answering said to her, `The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore also the holy-begotten thing shall be called Son of God;

¹³ If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'

¹⁶ and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety -- God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!

²⁶ For such a chief priest did become us -- kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens,