Job 33:27

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He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight,

And the publican, standing afar off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying: God, be merciful to me a sinner.

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

Therefore, the law is holy, and the commandment, holy and just and good.

For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, but lose his own life? Or, what will a man give as the ransom of his life?

What fruit, therefore, had you at that time, in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.