Bible Verses About Depravity of Man

What then? are we more excellent? No, in no wise: for we haue alreadie prooued, that all, both Iewes and Gentiles are vnder sinne,

As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one.

There is none that vnderstandeth: there is none that seeketh God.

They haue all gone out of the way: they haue bene made altogether vnprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no not one.

Their throte is an open sepulchre: they haue vsed their tongues to deceit: the poyson of aspes is vnder their lippes.

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse.

Their feete are swift to shead blood.

Destruction and calamity are in their waies,

And ye way of peace they haue not knowen.

The feare of God is not before their eies.

Now we know that whatsoeuer ye Lawe saieth, it saieth it to them which are vnder ye Law, that euery mouth may bee stopped, and all the world be subiect to the iudgement of God.

Wherefore, as by one man sinne entred into ye world, and death by sinne, and so death went ouer all men: in who all men haue sinned.

For vnto the time of the Law was sinne in the worlde, but sinne is not imputed, while there is no lawe.

But death reigned from Adam to Moses, euen ouer them also that sinned not after the like maner of that transgression of Adam, which was the figure of him that was to come.

I speake after the maner of man, because of the infirmitie of your flesh: for as yee haue giuen your members seruants to vncleannes and to iniquitie, to commit iniquitie, so now giue your mebers seruants vnto righteousnesse in holinesse.

For when ye were the seruants of sinne, ye were freed from righteousnesse.

Was that then which is good, made death vnto me? God forbid: but sinne, that it might appeare sinne, wrought death in me by that which is good, that sinne might be out of measure sinfull by the commandement.

For we knowe that the Law is spirituall, but I am carnall, solde vnder sinne.

For I alow not that which I do: for what I would, that do I not: but what I hate, that do I.

For I know, that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to wil is preset with me: but I find no meanes to perform that which is good.

For I doe not the good thing, which I would, but the euil, which I would not, that do I.

Nowe if I do that I would not, it is no more I that doe it, but the sinne that dwelleth in me.

I finde then that when I would doe good, I am thus yoked, that euill is present with me.

For they that are after the flesh, sauour the things of the flesh: but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

For the wisedome of the flesh is death: but the wisedome of the Spirit is life and peace,