Job 14:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 3:6 : 6 That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.
  • Job 15:14 : 14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.
  • Job 25:4-6 : 4 How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman? 5 See, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not clean in his eyes: 6 How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!
  • Rom 5:12 : 12 For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:
  • Eph 2:3 : 3 Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.
  • Gen 5:3 : 3 Adam had been living for a hundred and thirty years when he had a son like himself, after his image, and gave him the name of Seth:
  • Rom 8:8-9 : 8 So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God. 9 You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.
  • Ps 90:5 : 5 ...
  • Luke 1:35 : 35 And the angel in answer said to her, The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will come to rest on you, and so that which will come to birth will be named holy, Son of God.

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