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.
“God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.”
“envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.”
“Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,”
“idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,”
“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.”
“Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;”
“God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."”
“Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?”
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?”
“Therefore we don't faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.”
“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.”
“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.”
“As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.”
“What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?”
“knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.”
“There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.”
“They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as one."”
“"whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."”
“"There is no fear of God before their eyes."”
“"Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"”
“"Their feet are swift to shed blood.”
“Destruction and misery are in their ways.”
“The way of peace, they haven't known."”
“I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,”