Bible Verses about “total depravity”
Found 20 verses (ordered by relevance) about “total depravity” in the KJV version of the Bible
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”
“Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:”
“Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”
“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:”
“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.”
“And he said, ‹Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.›”
“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.”
“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:”
“‹No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.›”
“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.”
“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.”
“Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? [then] may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.”