Genesis 5:3
3When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and anamed him Seth.Genesis 6:5
5 bThe Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every cintention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.Genesis 6:12
12And God dsaw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, efor all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.Job 14:4
4Who can bring fa clean thing out of an unclean?There is not one.
Job 15:14-16
14 gWhat is man, hthat he can be pure?Or he who is iborn of a woman, that he can be righteous?
15Behold, God ▼
▼Hebrew he
kputs no trust in his lholy ones,and the heavens are not pure in his sight;
16 mhow much less one who is abominable and ncorrupt,
a man who odrinks injustice like water!
Job 25:4
4How then can man be pin the right before God?How can he who is qborn of woman be rpure?
Psalms 51:10
10 sCreate in me a tclean heart, O God,and urenew a right ▼
▼Or steadfast
spirit within me.Romans 7:5
5For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work win our members xto bear fruit for death.Romans 7:18
18For I know that nothing good dwells yin me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.Romans 7:25
25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
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