1 Corinthians 15:48

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.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men.”

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s also bear the image of the heavenly.

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: After his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, saying, “for God has given me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.”

God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

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. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

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

Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

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.

“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean.

He shall offer it before Yahweh, and make atonement for her; then she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. “ ‘This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female.

“Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of Yahweh toward Israel.

If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

“Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

Jesus asked him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one: God.

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.

“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed,

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.

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.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.