Isaiah 64:6

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

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,

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

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.

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.

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

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.”

He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.”

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

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.

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

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.

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

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.

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

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

The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

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

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

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

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.

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.

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

Moses said before Yahweh, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?”

Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

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

Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh’s angel driving them on.

Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.

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

The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

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.

“Therefore I will scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness.

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

But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

“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?

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

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

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.

What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

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.

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

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

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.

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.

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.

“Bless God in the congregations, even the Lord in the assembly of Israel!”

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

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

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.

Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

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

Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”

Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt was ruined. It was profitable for nothing.

The wind will feed all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.

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.

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 the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest,

then the priest shall examine him. Behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean of the plague. It has all turned white: he is clean.

“The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’

“The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment;

The foreigners will fade away, and will come trembling out of their close places.

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;

yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.

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

“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

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

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

The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.

For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.

Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness!

“Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness—

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.

Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

Those of you that escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols. Then they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

“Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and by their deeds. Their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.

My God, turn your ear, and hear. Open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.

The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be disappointed because of their sacrifices.

But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing,

“Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?

Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’ ”

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

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

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

Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that didn’t defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

One of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?”