For {there is} not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Who can bring a clean {thing} out of an unclean? not one. {can...: Heb. will give}

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but {how} to perform that which is good I find not.

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean {that is} born of a woman?

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If they sin against thee, (for {there is} no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;

They are all gone aside, they are {all} together become filthy: {there is} none that doeth good, no, not one. {filthy: Heb. stinking}

But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

I know {it is} so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? {with God: or, before God?}

If they sin against thee, (for {there is} no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before {their} enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near; {they carry them away captives: Heb. they that take them captives carry them away}

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. {conceive...: Heb. warm me}

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

The heart {is} deceitful above all {things}, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. {conceive...: Heb. warm me}

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

For {there is} not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Man {that is} born of a woman {is} of few days, and full of trouble. {few...: Heb. short of days}

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but {how} to perform that which is good I find not.

Who can bring a clean {thing} out of an unclean? not one. {can...: Heb. will give}

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean {that is} born of a woman?

If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

LORD, what {is} man, that thou takest knowledge of him! {or} the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.

Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none {is} good, save one, {that is}, God.

But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. {know: or, I am not conscious of any fault}

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. {as soon...: Heb. from the belly}

Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: {covetousness...: Gr. covetousnesses, wickednesses}

But we are all as an unclean {thing}, and all our righteousnesses {are} as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.

If they sin against thee, (for {there is} no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before {their} enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near; {they carry them away captives: Heb. they that take them captives carry them away}

Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall {your} heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. {desires: Gr. wills}

And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,

The way of man {is} froward and strange: but {as for} the pure, his work {is} right.

For vain man would be wise, though man be born {like} a wild ass's colt. {vain: Heb. empty}

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat {a son} in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

If they sin against thee, (for {there is} no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;

Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. {again: or, from above}

They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. {cast...: or, excommunicated him}

And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart {is} evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. {a sweet...: Heb. a savour of rest or, satisfaction} {for the imagination: or, through the imagination}