Ephesians 2:3

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

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

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

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

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before 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,

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

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

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

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

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

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

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

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.

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. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

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.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

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

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

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to 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.

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

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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.

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

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

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.

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

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

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

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

“We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

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.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

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.

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

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

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 as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

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.

Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.

This thing isn’t good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, Yahweh’s anointed. Now see where the king’s spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head.”

Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned.

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

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?

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

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 were called a transgressor from the womb.

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.

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”

and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says to Jerusalem: “Your origin and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.

and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

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.

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

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

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

During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,

who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;

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

Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

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 being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away and the true light already shines.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

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