Psalms 58:3

3 The wicked are aestranged from the womb;
they go astray from birth, speaking lies.

Jeremiah 2:5

5Thus says the Lord:

bWhat wrong did your fathers find in me
that they went far from me,
cand went after dworthlessness, and became worthless?

Jeremiah 2:31

31And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord.
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
or a land of thick darkness?
Why then do my people say, ‘We are free,
we will come no more to you’?

Romans 8:7

7For the mind that is set on the flesh is ehostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; findeed, it cannot.

Colossians 1:24

Paul’s Ministry to the Church

24Now gI rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh hI am filling up iwhat is lacking in Christ’s afflictions jfor the sake of his body, that is, the church,
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