Bible Verses about “depravity”
The Bible contains 14 verses about depravity across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”
“The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
“¶ But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”
“Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.”
“And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.”
“For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to perform that which is good I find not.”
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.”
“Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:”
“¶ And you [hath he quickened], who were dead in trespasses and sins;”
“The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.”
“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.”
“Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? [then] may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.”
“‹And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.›”