1 John 1:8

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

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

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

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

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

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

For God has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting place.

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

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

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

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

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.

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

Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

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

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

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

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

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;

“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 a land far off or near;

If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

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

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

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!

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.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:

For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.

“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them.

And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,