(A)Who can make the clean out of the unclean?
No one!

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

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14 What is man, that (A)he would be pure,
Or (B)he who is born of a woman, that he would be righteous?

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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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The wicked have turned away (A)from the womb;
These who speak lies (B)go astray from [a]birth.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 58:3 Lit the womb

Even from birth the wicked go astray;
    from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.

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Among them [a]we too all (A)previously lived in (B)the lusts of our flesh, [b]indulging the desires of the flesh and of the [c]mind, and were (C)by nature (D)children of wrath, (E)just as the rest.

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  1. Ephesians 2:3 I.e., Jewish believers
  2. Ephesians 2:3 Lit doing
  3. Ephesians 2:3 Lit thoughts

All of us also lived among them at one time,(A) gratifying the cravings of our flesh[a](B) and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 2:3 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.