Bible Verses about “the nature of man”
The Bible contains 25 verses about the nature of man across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
“Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,”
“Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,”
“[This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.”
“¶ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:”
“‹God› [is] ‹a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship› [him] ‹in spirit and in truth.›”
“¶ From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?”
“The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
“For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day.”
“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.”
“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.”
“As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:”
“O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”
“Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.”
“There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.”
“They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
“Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness:”
“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
“Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips:”
“Their feet [are] swift to shed blood:”
“Destruction and misery [are] in their ways:”
“And the way of peace have they not known:”
“¶ I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,”