21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma(A) and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground(B) because of humans, even though[a] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood.(C) And never again will I destroy(D) all living creatures,(E) as I have done.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 8:21 Or humans, for

Who can bring what is pure(A) from the impure?(B)
    No one!(C)

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14 “What are mortals, that they could be pure,
    or those born of woman,(A) that they could be righteous?(B)

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Surely I was sinful(A) at birth,(B)
    sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

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The heart(A) is deceitful above all things
    and beyond cure.
    Who can understand it?

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19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.(A)

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23 for all have sinned(A) and fall short of the glory of God,

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