Psalms 51:5
Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
BSB
ASV
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.
KJV
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity. He is thunderstruck at the discovery of his inbred sin, and proceeds to set it forth. This was not intended to justify himself, but it rather meant to complete the confession. It is as if he said, not only have I sinned this once, but I am in my very nature a sinner. The fountain of my life is polluted as well as its streams. My birth tendencies are out of the square of equity; I naturally lean to forbidden things. Mine is a constitutional disease, rendering my very person obnoxious to thy wrath.
This is what we call original sin, because it is as ancient as our original, and because it is the original of all our actual transgressions. This is that foolishness which is bound in the heart of a child, that proneness of evil and backwardness to good which is the burden of the regenerate and the ruin of the unregenerate; it is a bent to backslide from God.
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The walk8
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Through
Romans 5:12Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
leads to
For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.
For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
Through
Ephesians 2:3All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
leads to
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
