14 What is a mere human, that he should be pure,(A)
or one born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

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14 “What are mortals, that they could be pure,
    or those born of woman,(A) that they could be righteous?(B)

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14 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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The wicked go astray from the womb;
liars wander about from birth.(A)

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Even from birth the wicked go astray;
    from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.

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The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

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Death through Adam and Life through Christ

12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man,(A) and death through sin,(B) in this way death spread to all people,(C) because all sinned.[a] 13 In fact, sin was in the world before the law, but sin is not charged to a person’s account when there is no law.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 5:12 Or have sinned

Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ

12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man,(A) and death through sin,(B) and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned(C)

13 To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law.(D)

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12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

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