Psalms 36:2
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For his eyes are too full of conceit to detect or hate his own sin.
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because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
Though in his lifetime he blesses his soul— and men praise you when you prosper—
For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,
What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.
But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”