Depravity

Crooked <FI>is<Fi> the heart above all things, And it <FI>is<Fi> incurable--who doth know it?

And Jehovah seeth that abundant <FI>is<Fi> the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

for I have known that there doth not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and to work that which is right I do not find,

Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

Woe <FI>to<Fi> those saying to evil `good,' And to good `evil,' Putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, Putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.

Also you--being dead in the trespasses and the sins, — read the full passage →

and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know <FI>them<Fi> , because spiritually they are discerned;

Doth a Cushite change his skin? and a leopard his spots? Ye also are able to do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath--as also the others,

The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.

And we are as unclean--all of us, And as a garment passing away, all our righteous acts; And we fade as a leaf--all of us. And our iniquities as wind do take us away.

and ye do not will to come unto me, that ye may have life;

as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before--an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.

having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you--Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,

And Jesus said to him, `Why me dost thou call good? no one <FI>is<Fi> good, except One--God;

`Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things--being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.

Also you--being dead in the trespasses and the sins,

for when ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the righteousness,

because also Christ once for sin did suffer--righteous for unrighteous--that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature; — read the full passage →

for we were once--also we--thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious--hating one another;

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin; — read the full passage →

because, having known God they did not glorify <FI>Him<Fi> as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened,

The soul that doth sin--it doth die. A son doth not bear of the iniquity of the father, And a father doth not bear of the iniquity of the son, The righteousness of the righteous is on him, And the wickedness of the wicked is on him.

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

and he who is making a difference, if he may eat, hath been condemned, because <FI>it is<Fi> not of faith; and all that <FI>is<Fi> not of faith is sin.

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

and he--he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one <FI>point<Fi> , he hath become guilty of all;

even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

it is having been written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God; every one therefore who heard from the Father, and learned, cometh to me;

that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.

for scarcely for a righteous man will any one die, for for the good man perhaps some one also doth dare to die; — read the full passage →

according as it hath been written--`There is none righteous, not even one; — read the full passage →

for revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth in unrighteousness.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God-- — read the full passage →

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned.

And two of the messengers come towards Sodom at even, and Lot is sitting at the gate of Sodom, and Lot seeth, and riseth to meet them, and boweth himself--face to the earth, — read the full passage →

and of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou dost not eat of it, for in the day of thine eating of it--dying thou dost die.'

And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come; and he who is hearing--let him say, Come; and he who is thirsting--let him come; and he who is willing--let him take the water of life freely.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth did pass away, and the sea is not any more; — read the full passage →

And bow before it shall all who are dwelling upon the land, whose names have not been written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world;

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising <FI>us<Fi> , and we were reverencing <FI>them<Fi> ; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?

Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death--that is, the devil--

and evil men and impostors shall advance to the worse, leading astray and being led astray.

in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth--the good news of your salvation--in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,

for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things <FI>done<Fi> through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood, — read the full passage →

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.

for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

and now, why tarriest thou? having risen, baptize thyself, and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.

And Peter having opened his mouth, said, `Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons,

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

and he said to them, `Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;

for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders, — read the full passage →

`And a man who lieth with a male as one lieth with a woman; abomination both of them have done; they are certainly put to death; their blood <FI>is<Fi> on them.

`And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it <FI>is<Fi> .

and the death and the hades were cast to the lake of the fire--this <FI>is<Fi> the second death; — read the full passage →

and the death and the hades were cast to the lake of the fire--this <FI>is<Fi> the second death;

Beloved, all diligence using to write to you concerning the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting to agonize for the faith once delivered to the saints,

in this know ye the Spirit of God; every spirit that doth confess Jesus Christ in the flesh having come, of God it is,

and ye have known that he was manifested that our sins he may take away, and sin is not in him;

Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!

for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but <FI>one<Fi> tempted in all things in like manner--apart from sin;

who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;

whoremongers, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that to sound doctrine is adverse,

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--

The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ; — read the full passage →

and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,

And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, — read the full passage →

for with the heart doth <FI>one<Fi> believe to righteousness, and with the mouth is confession made to salvation;

For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing,

And Isaiah doth cry concerning Israel, `If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved;

so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden. — read the full passage →

because the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

for the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> death, and the mind of the Spirit--life and peace;

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;

and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and--were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up;

have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin; — read the full passage →

but in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working righteousness, is acceptable to Him;

And having heard, they were pricked to the heart; they say also to Peter, and to the rest of the apostles, `What shall we do, men, brethren?' — read the full passage →

and how do we hear, each in our proper dialect, in which we were born?

and these have been written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.'