23 Bible Verses about Imperfection, Influence Of
Most Relevant Verses
He said to Adam: Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you. You will eat the plants of the field. You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.
He named him Noah. He said: He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground Jehovah has cursed.
For the creation was subject to corruption, not by it's own will but by reason of the one who subjected it on the basis of hope. The creation will also be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and is in pain together until now.
Man's days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. The wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place shall know it no more.
He offered us his precious and exceedingly great promises. Through these you may become partakers of the divine nature. You will escape from the corruption that is in the lust-filled world.
We each must die and disappear like water poured out on the ground. But God does not take our lives. Instead, he figures out ways of bringing us back when we run away.
You turn men back into dust and say: Return, O sons of men! In your sight a thousand years are like a single day, like yesterday, already past like an hour in the night. You sweep mortals away in the sleep of death. They sprout again in the morning like grass.read more.
In the morning they blossom and sprout. In the evening they fade and wither away. Your anger consumes us. We are troubled by your rage. You set our sins in front of you. You put our secret sins in the light of your presence. Indeed, all our days slip away because of your fury. We live out our years like one long sigh. The days of our lives are seventy or eighty years if we are in good health. But the best of them bring trouble and misery. Indeed, they are soon gone, and we fly away.
But the rich must be glad when God humbles them. This is because they will wither like wildflowers and pass away.
All people are like grass. All their glory is like the blossom of a flower. The grass withers and the flower drops off.
You see God does not trust his own servants. He accuses his angels of making mistakes.
God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to captivity in pits of darkness reserved for judgment!
For all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God
Jehovah saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become. Every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.
They may sin against you, for everyone sins. You may become angry with them and hand them over to an enemy far or near who takes them to another country as captives.
They may sin against you. There is no man who is without sin. You may become angry with them and hand them over to an enemy who takes them to another country as captives, whether it is far or near.
Everyone has turned away. Together they have become rotten to the core. No one, not even one person, does good things.
If You, Jehovah, should record our sins, O Jehovah, who could stand?
We are all like sheep. We have gone astray! Each of us has turned to his own way. Jehovah has caused the iniquity (sin) of all of us to be laid on him.
All of us have become unclean, and all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags. All of us wither like leaves, and our sins carry us away like the wind.
But the Scriptures shut up (imprisoned) (pictured) all things (mankind) under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
We all stumble in many things. If any do not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able to restrain (control) the whole body.
Our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not obeyed your Law or given attention to your orders and your witness, with which you gave witness against them.
