“But what does something clean\par have in common with something dirty?\par Nothing!\par
Psalm 14:3 - Easy To Read Version But every person had turned away from God.\par All people had become bad.\par Not even one person was doing good!\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: There is none that doeth good, no, not one. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They are all gone aside, they have all together become filthy; there is none that does good or right, no, not one. [Rom. 3:11, 12.] American Standard Version (1901) They are all gone aside; they are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one. Common English Bible but all of them have turned bad. Everyone is corrupt. No one does good— not even one person! Catholic Public Domain Version He who speaks the truth in his heart, who has not acted deceitfully with his tongue, and has not done evil to his neighbor, and has not taken up a reproach against his neighbors. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He that speaketh truth in his heart, who hath not used deceit in his tongue: Nor hath done evil to his neighbour: nor taken up a reproach against his neighbours. |
“But what does something clean\par have in common with something dirty?\par Nothing!\par
Man is even worse.\par Man is dirty and ruined.\par He drinks up evil like water.\par
I wandered away like a lost sheep.\par Come looking for me, Lord.\par I am your servant,\par and I have not forgotten your commands.\par
A foolish person {\cf2\super [75]} says in his heart,\par “There is no God.”\par Foolish people do terrible, rotten things.\par Not even one of them does good.\par
Don’t judge me, your servant.\par Never, in all my life, could I ever be judged innocent.\par
Those evil men started doing wrong\par as soon as they were born.\par They have been liars from birth.\par
That night someone died in every house in Egypt. Pharaoh, his officials, and all the people of Egypt began crying very loudly.
And the Lord did what Moses asked. The Lord removed the flies from Pharaoh, his officials, and his people. None of the flies remained.
“There is one other thing I have learned: God made people good. But people found many ways to be bad.”
But \{even after he did this,\} all of us wandered away like sheep. We all went our own way. \{We did this after\} the Lord \{freed us from our guilt and\} put all our guilt on him.
We are all dirty with sin.\par Even our good works \{are not pure\}.\par They are like blood-stained rags.\par We are all like dead leaves.\par Our sins have carried us away like wind.\par
“My people have done two evil things.\par They turned away from me\par (I am the spring of living water),\par and they dug their own water cisterns.\par (They turned to other gods.)\par But their cisterns are broken.\par Those cisterns can’t hold water.\par
Then I will sprinkle pure water on you and make you pure. I will wash away all your filth. I will wash away the filth from those nasty idols and make you pure.”
I say this to shame you. Surely there is some person in your group wise enough to judge a complaint between two brothers (believers)!
Dear friends, we have these promises \{from God\}. So we should make ourselves pure—free from anything that makes our body or our soul unclean. We should try to become perfect in the way we live, because we respect God.
In the past, all of us lived like those people. We lived trying to please our sinful selves. We did all the things our bodies and minds wanted. We were \{evil\} people. We should have suffered God’s anger because of the way we were. We were the same as all other people.
‘None of you evil people who are living now will go into the good land that I promised to your ancestors. [7]