Bible Verses About Depravity

“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?”

“Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.”

“I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.”

“Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.”

“The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.”

“Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good — you who are accustomed to doing evil.”

“All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.”

“The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.”

“Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.”

“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus replied. “No one is good except God alone.”

“You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.”