Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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Bible References
Is man
John 3:6
Whatever is born of the physical is physical, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spiritual.
Romans 7:18
For I know that nothing good has its home in me; that is, in my lower self; I have the will but not the power to do what is right.
Galatians 3:22
But the Scripture pictures all mankind as prisoners of sin, so that the promised blessing through faith in Christ might be given to those who have faith.
Ephesians 2:2
in which you once lived in accordance with the spirit of this present world, and the mighty prince of the air, who is always at work in the disobedient, among whom all of us, we Jews as well as you heathen,
1 John 1:8
If we claim "We are already free from sin," we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in our hearts.
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Luke 18:19
Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me perfectly good? No one is perfectly good but God Himself.