4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
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That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. …
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)We are here led to think, I. Of the original of human life. God is indeed its great original, for he breathed into man the breath of life and in him we live; but we date it from our birth, and thence we must date both its frailty and its pollution. 1. Its frailty: Man, that is born of a woman, is therefore of few days , Job 14:1. This may refer to the first woman, who was called Eve , because she…
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