Bible Verses About Depravity of Man

Every one went back, together they became filthy, There is none doing good--not even one.

To the Overseer. --`Destroy not.' --A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men?

Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.

The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.

Their poison is as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,

Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful.

Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostasy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart is sick.

From the sole of the foot--unto the head, There is no soundness in it, Wound, and bruise, and fresh smiting! They have not been closed nor bound, Nor have they softened with ointment.

I, Jehovah, did call thee in righteousness, And I lay hold on thy hand, and keep thee, And I give thee for a covenant of a people, And a light of nations.

To open the eyes of the blind, To bring forth from prison the bound one, From the house of restraint those sitting in darkness.

And I have sprinkled over you clean water, And ye have been clean; From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you.

And I have given to you a new heart, And a new spirit I give in your midst, And I have turned aside the heart of stone out of your flesh, And I have given to you a heart of flesh.

There hath been upon me a hand of Jehovah, and He taketh me forth in the Spirit of Jehovah, and doth place me in the midst of the valley, and it is full of bones,

and He causeth me to pass over by them, all round about, and lo, very many are on the face of the valley, and lo, very dry.

And He saith unto me, `Son of man, do these bones live?' And I say, `O Lord Jehovah, Thou--Thou hast known.'

Perished hath the kind out of the land, And upright among men--there are none, All of them for blood lie in wait, Each his brother they hunt with a net.

On the evil are both hands to do it well, The prince is asking--also the judge--for recompence, And the great--he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.

Their best one is as a brier, The upright one--than a thorn-hedge, The day of thy watchmen--Thy visitation--hath come. Now is their perplexity.

`Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things--being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.

The good man out of the good treasure of the heart doth put forth the good things, and the evil man out of the evil treasure doth put forth evil things.

for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders,

thefts, covetous desires, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, an evil eye, evil speaking, pride, foolishness;

all these evils do come forth from within, and they defile the man.'

in the world he was, and the world through him was made, and the world did not know him:

to his own things he came, and his own people did not receive him;