Ecclesiastes 7:20

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.

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,

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.

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.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

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.

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

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

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;

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

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.

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.

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

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

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

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

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

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

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

but he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

“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;

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

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

Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

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

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

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

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.

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

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.

You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

and will make an offering by fire to Yahweh—a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a free will offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, of the herd, or of the flock—

But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.

However concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this.”

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

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

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

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.

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

“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?

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

But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

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.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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

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

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.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves.

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.

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.

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

They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”

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.

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

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.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

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

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.

Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day. Behold, if the plague has faded and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

then the priest shall examine them. Behold, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is a harmless rash. It has broken out in the skin. He is clean.

So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, because his father had treated him shamefully.

Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all the storehouse of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, or in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them.

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

“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless.

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

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.

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.

While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;

Jesus said to him, “Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.”

And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

Then the contention grew so sharp that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus,