All Bad

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We are all sinners, and so bad that we cannot be worse. To be free from such a state we must come to an end of self, and have done with self-justification and self-assertion. Are you willing to stand before God as a sinner having no worth of your own to plead? Then only is it that you can receive His salvation.
"Not the righteous, but sinners, Jesus came to call." "They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick." Matt. 9:1212But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. (Matthew 9:12). We need to learn what that means, and take it to heart individually. Then we can say, "Lord, save, or I perish." God does not save those who are good in their own eyes, but totally bad in God's eyes.
His word is, "Justified freely by His grace," Rom. 3:2424Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: (Romans 3:24)—justified by His blood. There is not one word in Scripture in favor of self-justification.
"It is written, there is none righteous, no, not one." Rom. 3:1010As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: (Romans 3:10).