1 Kings 8:46
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46 (A)“When they sin against you (for there is no one who does not sin), and in your anger against them you deliver them to an enemy, so that their captors carry them off to the land of the enemy, far or near,
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2 Chronicles 6:36
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36 When they sin against you (for there is no one who does not sin), and in your anger against them you deliver them to an enemy, so that their captors carry them off to another land, far or near,
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Ecclesiastes 7:20
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20 (A)yet there is no one on earth so just as to do good and never sin.
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1 John 1:8
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8 If we say, “We are without sin,” we deceive ourselves,[a] and the truth is not in us.(A)
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- 1:8–10 Denial of the condition of sin is self-deception and even contradictory of divine revelation; there is also the continual possibility of sin’s recurrence. Forgiveness and deliverance from sin through Christ are assured through acknowledgment of them and repentance.
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