Bible Verses About Depravity of Man: General references

The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

The LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

The LORD said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”

The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.

‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;

How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!”

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is no one who does good.

The LORD looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.