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Revelation 3:17-18
Because you say,“ I am rich and have acquired great wealth, and need nothing,” but do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked,take my advice and buy gold from me refined by fire so you can become rich! Buy from me white clothing so you can be clothed and your shameful nakedness will not be exposed, and buy eye salve to put on your eyes so you can see!
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Ephesians 2:1-2
And although you were dead in your transgressions and sins,in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,
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Romans 7:18
For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.
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Romans 7:24
Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
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Job 25:4
How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
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Job 14:4
Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!
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Psalms 90:5-6
You bring their lives to an end and they“ fall asleep.” In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;in the morning it glistens and sprouts up; at evening time it withers and dries up.
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Zechariah 3:3
Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood there before the angel.
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Job 42:5-6
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen you.Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes!
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Isaiah 53:6
All of us had wandered off like sheep; each of us had strayed off on his own path, but the LORD caused the sin of all of us to attack him.
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Titus 3:3
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.
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Philippians 3:9
and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness– a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness.
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Isaiah 40:6-8
A voice says,“ Cry out!” Another asks,“ What should I cry out?” The first voice responds:“ All people are like grass, and all their promises are like the flowers in the field.The grass dries up, the flowers wither, when the wind sent by the LORD blows on them. Surely humanity is like grass.The grass dries up, the flowers wither, but the decree of our God is forever reliable.”
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Revelation 7:13
Then one of the elders asked me,“ These dressed in long white robes– who are they and where have they come from?”
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Isaiah 46:12
Listen to me, you stubborn people, you who distance yourself from doing what is right.
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Isaiah 6:5
I said,“ Too bad for me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the LORD who commands armies.”
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Psalms 51:5
Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.
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Job 15:14-16
What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!
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Jeremiah 4:11-12
“ At that time the people of Judah and Jerusalem will be told,‘ A scorching wind will sweep down from the hilltops in the desert on my dear people. It will not be a gentle breeze for winnowing the grain and blowing away the chaff.No, a wind too strong for that will come at my bidding. Yes, even now I, myself, am calling down judgment on them.’
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Zechariah 5:8-11
He then said,“ This woman represents wickedness,” and he pushed her down into the basket and placed the lead cover on top.Then I looked again and saw two women going forth with the wind in their wings( they had wings like those of a stork) and they lifted up the basket between the earth and the sky.I asked the messenger who was speaking to me,“ Where are they taking the basket?”He replied,“ To build a temple for her in the land of Babylonia. When it is finished, she will be placed there in her own residence.”
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Hosea 4:19
A whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings; they will be brought to shame because of their idolatrous worship.
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Job 40:4
“ Indeed, I am completely unworthy– how could I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth to silence myself.
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Isaiah 48:1
Listen to this, O family of Jacob, you who are called by the name‘ Israel,’ and are descended from Judah, who take oaths in the name of the LORD, and invoke the God of Israel– but not in an honest and just manner.
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Psalms 1:4
Not so with the wicked! Instead they are like wind-driven chaff.
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Isaiah 57:12-13
I will denounce your so-called righteousness and your deeds, but they will not help you.When you cry out for help, let your idols help you! The wind blows them all away, a breeze carries them away. But the one who looks to me for help will inherit the land and will have access to my holy mountain.”
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James 1:10-11
But the rich person’s pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow.For the sun rises with its heat and dries up the meadow; the petal of the flower falls off and its beauty is lost forever. So also the rich person in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.
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1 Peter 1 24-1 Peter 1 25
For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,but the word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.