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Revelation 3:17-18
Because you say,‘ I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.
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Ephesians 2:1-2
You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.
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Romans 7:18
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.
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Romans 7:24
What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
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Job 25:4
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
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Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
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Psalms 90:5-6
You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.
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Zechariah 3:3
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing 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 sees you.Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
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Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
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Titus 3:3
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
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Philippians 3:9
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,
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Isaiah 40:6-8
The voice of one saying,“ Cry!” One said,“ What shall I cry?”“ All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”
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Revelation 7:13
One of the elders answered, saying to me,“ These who are arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?”
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Isaiah 46:12
Listen to me, you stubborn- hearted, who are far from righteousness!
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Isaiah 6:5
Then I said,“ Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”
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Psalms 51:5
Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.
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Job 15:14-16
What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
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Jeremiah 4:11-12
At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem,“ A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;a full wind from these will come for me. Now I will also utter judgments against them.”
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Zechariah 5:8-11
He said,“ This is Wickedness;” and he threw her down into the middle of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.Then I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, there were two women, and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth and the sky.Then I said to the angel who talked with me,“ Where are these carrying the ephah basket?”He said to me,“ To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place.”
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Hosea 4:19
The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be disappointed because of their sacrifices.
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Job 40:4
“ Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
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Isaiah 48:1
“ Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness—
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Psalms 1:4
The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
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Isaiah 57:12-13
I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.When you cry, let those whom you have gathered deliver you; but the wind will take them. a breath will carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land, and will inherit my holy mountain.”
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James 1:10-11
and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.
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1 Peter 1 24-1 Peter 1 25
For,“ All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.