Romans 3:9

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

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

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

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?”

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

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

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

‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ”

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

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

and say to them, Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Cursed is the man who doesn’t hear the words of this covenant,

Jesus said to him, “Don’t forbid him, for he who is not against us is for us.”

The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

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

For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name!

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and, “God has visited his people!”

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.

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

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void or adds to it.

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

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

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

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

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.”

and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.

So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

Though while he lived he blessed his soul— and men praise you when you do well for yourself—

But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.

The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.

that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

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.

Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?”

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

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

Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let’s do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

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?

but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.

Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

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.

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

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

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

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.

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

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.

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

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

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.

who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

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!

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”

He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

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

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?

What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.