But God sawe that the malice of man was great in the earth, and all the imagination of the thoughtes of his heart was only euyll euery day.
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TSK · Proverbs 21:8
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What is man, that he should be cleane? and he which is borne of a woman, whereby he might be righteous?
Whose wayes are croked, and they frowarde in their pathes.
There is a generation that thynke them selues cleane, and yet is not cleansed from their filthinesse.
Among all thinges that come to passe vnder the sunne, this is a miserie, that it happeneth vnto all alike: This is the cause also that the heartes of men are full of wickednesse, and madde foolishnesse is in their heartes as long as they liue, vntyll they dye.
But the way of peace they know not, in their goinges is no equitie: their wayes are so crooked, that whosoeuer goeth therein knoweth of no peace.
Blessed (are) the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
And put no difference betwene vs and them, purifiyng their heartes by fayth.
In the which in time passed ye walked, according to the course of this worlde, after the gouernour that ruleth in the ayre, the spirite that nowe worketh in the chyldren of disobedience.
Which gaue hym selfe for vs, that he myght redeeme vs from all vnryghteousnesse, and pourge vs a peculier people vnto hym selfe, zelous of good workes.
Not of workes which be in ryghteousnesse wrought, but accordyng to his mercie, he saued vs by the fountayne of regeneration and renuyng of the holy ghost,
If ye knowe that he is ryghteous, knowe also that euery one whiche doth righteousnes, is borne of hym.