Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

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.

I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.

Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: