Bible Verses about “depravity”

“for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;”

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?”

“For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.”

“Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.”

“Yahweh 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, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.”

“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”

“Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”

“in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;”

“You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,”

“The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.”

“among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.”

“Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.”

“Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.”