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Titus 3:3
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.
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Ephesians 2:3
We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.
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Ephesians 2:11-12
So, then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh— called“ the uncircumcised” by those called“ the circumcised,” which is done in the flesh by human hands.At that time you were without Christ, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world.
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Romans 3:9
What then? Are we any better off? Not at all! For we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin,
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Matthew 3:7-9
When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them,“ Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?Therefore produce fruit consistent with repentance.And don’t presume to say to yourselves,‘ We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.
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Philippians 3:4
although I have reasons for confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:
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Acts 22:21
“ He said to me,‘ Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
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John 8:39-41
“ Our father is Abraham,” they replied.“ If you were Abraham’s children,” Jesus told them,“ you would do what Abraham did.But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.You’re doing what your father does.”“ We weren’t born of sexual immorality,” they said.“ We have one Father— God.”
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Mark 7:26-28
The woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she was asking him to cast the demon out of her daughter.He said to her,“ Let the children be fed first, because it isn’t right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”But she replied to him,“ Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
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Matthew 9:11
When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples,“ Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
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1 Samuel 15 18
and then sent you on a mission and said,‘ Go and completely destroy the sinful Amalekites. Fight against them until you have annihilated them.’
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Romans 4:16
This is why the promise is by faith, so that it may be according to grace, to guarantee it to all the descendants— not only to the one who is of the law but also to the one who is of Abraham’s faith. He is the father of us all.
