We ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. – Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. |
Job answered the Lord, and said, Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. – The Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? |
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. – David … to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will. |
I obtained mercy, … who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious. |
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. |