Original Sin

Yea, thou hast not heard, Yea, thou hast not known, Yea, from that time not opened hath thine ear, For I have known thou dealest treacherously, And `Transgressor from the belly,' One is crying to thee.

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;

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

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

Every one went back, together they became filthy, There is none doing good--not even one.

This <FI>is<Fi> an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event <FI>is<Fi> to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness <FI>is<Fi> in their heart during their life, and after it--unto the dead.

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

if we may say--`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us; — read the full passage →

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

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.

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

Jehovah from the heavens Hath looked on the sons of men, To see if there is a wise one--seeking God. — read the full passage →

Lo, all the souls are Mine, As the soul of the father, So also the soul of the son--they are Mine, The soul that is sinning--it doth die.

But your iniquities have been separating Between you and your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you--from hearing.

`And your infants, of whom ye have said, For a prey they are, and your sons who have not known to-day good and evil, they go in thither, and to them I give it, and they possess it;

And Jehovah God saith, `Lo, the man was as one of Us, as to the knowledge of good and evil; and now, lest he send forth his hand, and have taken also of the tree of life, and eaten, and lived to the age,' --

And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, `Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?' — read the full passage →

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

And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died; — 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.'

(But from my youth He grew up with me as <FI>with<Fi> a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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,

Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;

See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they--they have sought out many devices.

Let no one say, being tempted--`From God I am tempted,' for God is not tempted of evil, and Himself doth tempt no one,

For, when nations that have not a law, by nature may do the things of the law, these not having a law--to themselves are a law; — read the full passage →

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

What <FI>is<Fi> man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?

to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

and Jehovah smelleth the sweet fragrance, and Jehovah saith unto His heart, `I continue not to disesteem any more the ground because of man, though the imagination of the heart of man <FI>is<Fi> evil from his youth; and I continue not to smite any more all living, as I have done;

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;

for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive,

for as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners: so also through the obedience of the one, shall the many be constituted righteous.

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

But Jesus said, `Suffer the children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the reign of the heavens;'

And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, `Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?' — 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,

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

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.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

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;

if we may say--`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

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;

Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

And the woman seeth that the tree <FI>is<Fi> good for food, and that it <FI>is<Fi> pleasant to the eyes, and the tree is desirable to make <FI>one<Fi> wise, and she taketh of its fruit and eateth, and giveth also to her husband with her, and he doth eat;

and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that <FI>is<Fi> in my members.

but the death did reign from Adam till Moses, even upon those not having sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of him who is coming.

Butter and honey he doth eat, When he knoweth to refuse evil, and to fix on good. — read the full passage →

`And now, fear ye Jehovah, and serve Him, in perfection and in truth, and turn aside the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt, and serve ye Jehovah; — read the full passage →

if we may say--`we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.

being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

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

And he said--`That which is coming out from the man, that doth defile the man; — read the full passage →

but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man; — read the full passage →

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

having known that, not with corruptible things--silver or gold--were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers, — read the full passage →

afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.

for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,

in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,

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

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 →

according as it hath been written--`There is none righteous, not even one;

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.

he who is doing the sin, of the devil he is, because from the beginning the devil doth sin; for this was the Son of God manifested, that he may break up the works of the devil;

and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed, — read the full passage →

So, then, as through one offence to all men <FI>it is<Fi> to condemnation, so also through one declaration of `Righteous' <FI>it is<Fi> to all men to justification of life;

And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, `Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?'

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

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

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin; — read the full passage →

who do shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also witnessing with them, and between one another the thoughts accusing or else defending,

And God seeth all that He hath done, and lo, very good; and there is an evening, and there is a morning--day the sixth.

every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen him, nor known him.

For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast <FI>them<Fi> down to Tartarus, did deliver <FI>them<Fi> to judgment, having been reserved,

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

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, — read the full passage →

so that the law, indeed, <FI>is<Fi> holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good. — read the full passage →

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

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God-- — read the full passage →

Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.

for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us--those being saved--it is the power of God,

for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;

and of the fruit of the tree which <FI>is<Fi> in the midst of the garden God hath said, Ye do not eat of it, nor touch it, lest ye die.'

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

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

Happy and holy <FI>is<Fi> he who is having part in the first rising again; over these the second death hath not authority, but they shall be priests of God and of the Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

if we may say--`we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk--we lie, and do not the truth;

that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;

in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience, — read the full passage →

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

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

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 →

So, then, as through one offence to all men <FI>it is<Fi> to condemnation, so also through one declaration of `Righteous' <FI>it is<Fi> to all men to justification of life; — read the full passage →

for till law sin was in the world: and sin is not reckoned when there is not law;

And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;

For, when nations that have not a law, by nature may do the things of the law, these not having a law--to themselves are a law;