Bible Verses About Nature of Man

“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.”

“As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one. There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.” “Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.” “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.” “Their feet are swift to shed blood; ruin and misery lie in their wake, and the way of peace they have not known.” “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

“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.”

“What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?”

“What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?”

“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.”

“God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”

“I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit.”

“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.”