Psalm 51:5  Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.

Ezekiel 16:5,6  "No eye looked with pity on you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you. Rather you were thrown out into the open field, for you were abhorred on the day you were born. • "When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you while you were in your blood, 'Live!' Yes, I said to you while you were in your blood, 'Live!'

Psalm 40:2,3  He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm. • He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God; Many will see and fear And will trust in the LORD.

Romans 5:6-8  For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. • For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. • But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Ephesians 2:4,5  But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, • even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

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