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That is true, you have to use all scriptures, to come to the correct understanding. No contradictions.
Psalm 51:5 (King James Version)
5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
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I'm not sure who the Psalmist is there and I'm not going to look it up, but Psalm 119 tells us.
1Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
2Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
3They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
4Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
5O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
6Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
Then there is Ezekiel
Ezekiel 28:15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
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Romans 3:23 (King James Version)
23For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
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That is prior to salvation. God sent Jesus as a sacrifice. Look at verse 25
25Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
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Ephesians 2:3-7 (King James Version)
3Among 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.
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Notice the part I highlighted for you.
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Originally Posted by epignosis
But none of them could do what Jesus did. Because they were not perfect. God chose Jesus to come to the earth because he was going to be a perfect man ( physically) and he was sinless. All of us were born into sin, and imperfection.
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So the Psalmist is just boasting here?
Psalm 101:2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
Then there is Luke 1.
Luke 1:5-6 THERE was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.