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Revelation 3:17-18
For you say,‘ I’m rich; I have become wealthy and need nothing,’ and you don’t realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.I advise you to buy from me gold refined in the fire so that you may be rich, white clothes so that you may be dressed and your shameful nakedness not be exposed, and ointment to spread on your eyes so that you may see.
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Ephesians 2:1-2
And you were dead in your trespasses and sinsin which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now working in the disobedient.
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Romans 7:18
For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.
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Romans 7:24
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
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Job 25:4
How can a human be justified before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
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Job 14:4
Who can produce something pure from what is impure? No one!
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Psalms 90:5-6
You end their lives; they sleep. They are like grass that grows in the morning—in the morning it sprouts and grows; by evening it withers and dries up.
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Zechariah 3:3
Now Joshua was dressed with filthy clothes as he stood before the angel.
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Job 42:5-6
I had heard reports about you, but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore, I reject my words and am sorry for them; I am dust and ashes.
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Isaiah 53:6
We all went astray like sheep; we all have turned to our own way; and the LORD has punished him for the iniquity of us all.
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Titus 3:3
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.
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Philippians 3:9
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own from the law, but one that is through faith in Christ— the righteousness from God based on faith.
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Isaiah 40:6-8
A voice was saying,“ Cry out!” Another said,“ What should I cry out?”“ All humanity is grass, and all its goodness is like the flower of the field.The grass withers, the flowers fade when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.The grass withers, the flowers fade, but the word of our God remains forever.”
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Revelation 7:13
Then one of the elders asked me,“ Who are these people in white robes, and where did they come from?”
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Isaiah 46:12
Listen to me, you hardhearted, far removed from justice:
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Isaiah 6:5
Then I said: Woe is me for I am ruined because I am a man of unclean lips and live among a people of unclean lips, and because my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Armies.
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Psalms 51:5
Indeed, I was guilty when I was born; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
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Job 15:14-16
What is a mere human, that he should be pure, or one born of a woman, that he should be righteous?If God puts no trust in his holy ones and the heavens are not pure in his sight,how much less one who is revolting and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
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Jeremiah 4:11-12
“ At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem,‘ A searing wind blows from the barren heights in the wilderness on the way to my dear people. It comes not to winnow or to sift;a wind too strong for this comes at my call. Now I will also pronounce judgments against them.’”
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Zechariah 5:8-11
“ This is Wickedness,” he said. He shoved her down into the basket and pushed the lead weight over its opening.Then I looked up and saw two women approaching with the wind in their wings. Their wings were like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and sky.So I asked the angel who was speaking with me,“ Where are they taking the basket?”“ To build a shrine for it in the land of Shinar,” he told me.“ When that is ready, the basket will be placed there on its pedestal.”
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Hosea 4:19
A wind with its wings will carry them off, and they will be ashamed of their sacrifices.
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Job 40:4
I am so insignificant. How can I answer you? I place my hand over my mouth.
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Isaiah 48:1
“ Listen to this, house of Jacob— those who are called by the name Israel and have descended from Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD and declare the God of Israel, but not in truth or righteousness.
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Psalms 1:4
The wicked are not like this; instead, they are like chaff that the wind blows away.
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Isaiah 57:12-13
I will announce your righteousness, and your works— they will not profit you.When you cry out, let your collection of idols rescue you! The wind will carry all of them off, a breath will take them away. But whoever takes refuge in me will inherit the land and possess my holy mountain.
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James 1:10-11
but let the rich boast in his humiliation because he will pass away like a flower of the field.For the sun rises and, together with the scorching wind, dries up the grass; its flower falls off, and its beautiful appearance perishes. In the same way, the rich person will wither away while pursuing his activities.
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1 Peter 1 24-1 Peter 1 25
For All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like a flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,but the word of the Lord endures forever. And this word is the gospel that was proclaimed to you.