Bible Verses about “total depravity”
The Bible contains 20 verses about total depravity across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;”
“being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;”
“because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.”
“Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.”
“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.”
“He said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father."”
“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.”
“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.”
“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.”
“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.”
“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."”
“Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.”