Bible Verses About Depravity of Man

What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

As it is written: There is not any man just.

There is none that understandeth: there is none that seeketh after God.

All have turned out of the way: they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, there is not so much as one.

Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

Their feet swift to shed blood:

Destruction and misery in their ways:

And the way of peace they have not known.

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God.

Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world and by sin death: and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned.

For until the law sin was in the world: but sin was not imputed, when the law was not.

But death reigned from Adam unto Moses, even over them also who have not sinned, after the similitude of the transgression of Adam, who is a figure of him who was to come.

I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity: so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification.

For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to justice.

Was that then which is good made death unto me? God forbid! But sin, that it may appear sin, by that which is good, wrought death in me: that sin, by the commandment, might become sinful above measure.

For we know that the law is spiritual. But I am carnal, sold under sin.

For that which I work, I understand not. For I do not that good which I will: but the evil which I hate, that I do.

For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is to say, in my flesh, that which is good. For to will is present with me: but to accomplish that which is good, I find not.

For the good which I will, I do not: but the evil which I will not, that I do.

Now if I do that which I will not, it is no more I that do it: but sin that dwelleth in me.

I find then a law, that when I have a will to do good, evil is present with me.

For they that are according to the flesh mind the things that are of the flesh: but they that are according to the spirit mind the things that are of the spirit.

For the wisdom of the flesh is death: but the wisdom of the spirit is life and peace.