Genesis 5:3

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.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

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

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

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

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.

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

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of David’s house. The virgin’s name was Mary.

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

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

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me.

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

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

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.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

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

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

But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

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

Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

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.

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul who sins, he shall die.

He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,

Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”

concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh,

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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.

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,

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

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.

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,

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

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.”

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.

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

I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

“In that day there will be a spring opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

Those who were in the boat came and worshiped him, saying, “You are truly the Son of God!”

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

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

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

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.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

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.