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Which parts of the Bible does Faust quote when he rejects divinity in Scene 1?

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Faust quotes Romans 6:23: "For the wages of sin are death."
He also quotes 1 John 1:18: " If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there
is no truth in us. Why, then, belike we must sin, and so
consequently die"

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