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100 Bible Verses about Depravity Of Man

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 81 helpful votes

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Romans 3:23 ESV / 79 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Psalm 51:5 ESV / 77 helpful votes

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 72 helpful votes

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Jeremiah 13:23 ESV / 72 helpful votes

Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.

Isaiah 64:6 ESV / 72 helpful votes

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Genesis 6:5 ESV / 71 helpful votes

The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Psalm 58:3 ESV / 68 helpful votes

The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.

Romans 7:18 ESV / 67 helpful votes

For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.

Ephesians 2:1-3 ESV / 62 helpful votes

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Ephesians 2:3 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Romans 5:12 ESV / 55 helpful votes

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

Romans 8:7 ESV / 48 helpful votes

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.

Romans 6:17 ESV / 47 helpful votes

But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,

John 3:19 ESV / 46 helpful votes

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

Genesis 8:21 ESV / 45 helpful votes

And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

Ecclesiastes 7:20 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

John 6:44 ESV / 42 helpful votes

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

Ephesians 2:1 ESV / 41 helpful votes

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins

Romans 6:20 ESV / 41 helpful votes

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

Romans 3:9-19 ESV / 41 helpful votes

What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.” ...

Isaiah 53:6 ESV / 41 helpful votes

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Psalm 14:1-3 ESV / 41 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.

Romans 3:10-11 ESV / 40 helpful votes

As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God.

Mark 7:21-23 ESV / 40 helpful votes

For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

Ephesians 4:18 ESV / 39 helpful votes

They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.

Romans 6:6 ESV / 39 helpful votes

We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

Job 15:14-16 ESV / 39 helpful votes

What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous? Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight; how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!

Romans 7:23 ESV / 38 helpful votes

But I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.

Romans 3:10 ESV / 38 helpful votes

As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;

Romans 3:12 ESV / 37 helpful votes

All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”

John 5:40 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.

Titus 3:3 ESV / 36 helpful votes

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.

John 6:65 ESV / 36 helpful votes

And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”

Romans 7:14 ESV / 35 helpful votes

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 34 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Ephesians 4:17-19 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.

1 John 1:8 ESV / 32 helpful votes

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Colossians 2:13 ESV / 31 helpful votes

And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

Colossians 1:21 ESV / 31 helpful votes

And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,

Romans 3:11 ESV / 30 helpful votes

No one understands; no one seeks for God.

John 3:6 ESV / 30 helpful votes

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Ecclesiastes 9:3 ESV / 30 helpful votes

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Job 14:4 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.

Romans 5:19 ESV / 29 helpful votes

For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.

John 8:34 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 28 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Romans 7:25 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

Romans 7:18-21 ESV / 28 helpful votes

For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.

Romans 7:13-15 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.

Romans 7:11 ESV / 28 helpful votes

For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

Romans 7:5 ESV / 28 helpful votes

For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

Romans 5:12-14 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.

Romans 5:6 ESV / 28 helpful votes

For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

Romans 2:1 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.

Acts 8:23 ESV / 28 helpful votes

For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.”

John 14:17 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

John 8:23 ESV / 28 helpful votes

He said to them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

John 3:16 ESV / 28 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 1:10-11 ESV / 28 helpful votes

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.

Luke 1:79 ESV / 28 helpful votes

To give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Matthew 15:19 ESV / 28 helpful votes

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

Matthew 12:34-35 ESV / 28 helpful votes

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.

Matthew 7:17 ESV / 28 helpful votes

So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit.

Micah 7:2-4 ESV / 28 helpful votes

The godly has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts the other with a net. Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together. The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, of your punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand.

Hosea 14:9 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.

Hosea 6:7 ESV / 28 helpful votes

But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.

Ezekiel 37:1-3 ESV / 28 helpful votes

The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry. And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God, you know.”

Ezekiel 36:25-26 ESV / 28 helpful votes

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

Psalm 14:3 ESV / 28 helpful votes

They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.

Revelation 22:17 ESV / 27 helpful votes

The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.

1 John 3:4 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

1 John 2:2 ESV / 27 helpful votes

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Romans 1:18 ESV / 27 helpful votes

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

Ezekiel 16:6 ESV / 27 helpful votes

“And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’

Jeremiah 16:12 ESV / 27 helpful votes

And because you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, every one of you follows his stubborn, evil will, refusing to listen to me.

Jeremiah 6:7 ESV / 27 helpful votes

As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her evil; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.

Jeremiah 2:29 ESV / 27 helpful votes

“Why do you contend with me? You have all transgressed against me, declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 2:22 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, declares the Lord God.

Isaiah 51:1 ESV / 27 helpful votes

“Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the Lord: look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were dug.

Isaiah 48:8 ESV / 27 helpful votes

You have never heard, you have never known, from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and that from before birth you were called a rebel.

Isaiah 43:8 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears!

Isaiah 42:6-7 ESV / 27 helpful votes

“I am the Lord; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations, to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.

Isaiah 1:5-6 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and raw wounds; they are not pressed out or bound up or softened with oil.

Ecclesiastes 8:11 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.

Ephesians 2:5 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

Romans 8:7-8 ESV / 26 helpful votes

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...

Romans 5:14 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.

Psalm 14:1 ESV / 25 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.

Revelation 22:3 ESV / 24 helpful votes

No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him.

1 John 1:3 ESV / 24 helpful votes

That which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

2 Timothy 3:3 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,

Romans 5:13 ESV / 24 helpful votes

For sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.

Romans 1:4 ESV / 24 helpful votes

And was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,

Romans 1:3 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh

John 3:16-17 ESV / 24 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:3 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Galatians 3:22 ESV / 15 helpful votes

But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

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