Psalms 14:3

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

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.

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

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

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

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,

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

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.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

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

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

For with you is the spring of life. In your light we will see light.

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

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

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

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

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

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.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

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.

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

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

A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.

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.

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.

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters flowed out from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the front of the house faced toward the east. The waters came down from underneath, from the right side of the house, on the south of the altar.

Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

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.

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.

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

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

There will be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been, nor will be any more.

You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.

Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

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

Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning.

Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

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 cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against me. I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned against me and by which they have transgressed against me.

Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

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

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

“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.

I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

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

He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,

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

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

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

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.

Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.

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.

so he will cleanse many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for they will see that which had not been told them, and they will understand that which they had not heard.

“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 people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

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

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

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.

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

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

My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.

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

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

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

Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”

“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.

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

I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, out of Aram-maacah, and out of Zobah.

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

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,

Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. There remained not one.

Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

“Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land which I swore to give to your fathers,

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

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.