I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

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

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?

If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;

If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

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

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.