Psalms 51:5

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

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.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

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

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.

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

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.”

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

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

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’

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

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.

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.

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.”

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

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

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.

“ ‘If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days. Whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.

Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

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

Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

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;

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 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.

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.

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.”

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—

‘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?

I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.

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.

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

His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

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.

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

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

I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

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 this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.

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

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

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

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 who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit.

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

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

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?”

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

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

“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean.

“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!’

If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.

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

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

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

Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.

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.

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.

Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

He asked his father, “How long has it been since this has come to him?” He said, “From childhood.

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.

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,