Romans 3:9-20 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;… Every sin we commit is like taking a step further back from God: and return is rendered impossible without Divine assistance, as Satan cuts the bridges behind man in his retreating downward path; and also as every false step necessitates another — rather indeed many — as the author of Waverley Novels knew to his cost, and left it on record: "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive!" Or again, as Schiller more philosophically puts it: "This is the very curse of evil deed, that of new evil it becomes the seed." Parallel Verses KJV: What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; |
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