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Original Sin
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Yes, you didn’t hear; yes, you didn’t know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb.
Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.
The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, — read the full passage →
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. — read the full passage →
As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one. — read the full passage →
The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.
for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God. — read the full passage →
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die.
but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
Moreover your little ones, whom you said should be captured or killed, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there, and I will give it to, and they shall possess it.
Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”
Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →
The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. — read the full passage →
but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother’s womb);
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”
Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves, — read the full passage →
That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike every living thing, as I have done.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.
Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →
But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”
Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →
because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →
Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.
He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good. — read the full passage →
“Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh. — read the full passage →
If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;
Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.
He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. — read the full passage →
But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man. — read the full passage →
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, — read the full passage →
Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;
You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,
Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned. — read the full passage →
As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.
For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. — read the full passage →
So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.
Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’”
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin. — read the full passage →
in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)
God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him, neither knows him.
For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good. — read the full passage →
Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. — read the full passage →
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; — read the full passage →
He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’”
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.
that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience; — read the full passage →
You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, — read the full passage →
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →
So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life. — read the full passage →
For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,
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