DEPRAVITY OF MAN

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• Genesis 6:5

  Yahweh 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.

• Genesis 6:6

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

• Genesis 6:7

  Yahweh 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.”

• Genesis 6:11

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

• Genesis 6:12

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

• Genesis 6:13

  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.

• Genesis 8:21

  Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

• Deuteronomy 32:10

  He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

• 2 Chronicles 6:36

  “If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

• Job 4:17

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

• Job 4:18

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

• Job 4:19

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

• Job 9:2

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

• Job 9:3

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

• Job 9:20

  Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.

• Job 9:29

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

• Job 9:30

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

• Job 11:12

  An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

• Job 14:4

  Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

• Job 15:14

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

• Job 15:15

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

• Job 15:16

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

• Job 25:4

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

• Job 25:5

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

• Job 25:6

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

• Psalms 5:9

  For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

• Psalms 14:1

  For the Chief Musician. By David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

• Psalms 14:2

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

• Psalms 14:3

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

• Psalms 51:5

  Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

• Psalms 53:1

  For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Mahalath.” A contemplation by David. 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.

• Psalms 53:2

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

• Psalms 53:3

  Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

• Psalms 58:1

  For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David. Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?

• Psalms 58:2

  No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

• Psalms 58:3

  The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

• Psalms 58:4

  Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

• Psalms 58:5

  which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be.

• Psalms 94:11

  Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

• Psalms 130:3

  If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

• Psalms 143:2

  Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

• Proverbs 10:20

  The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.

• Proverbs 20:6

  Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

• Proverbs 20:9

  Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

• Proverbs 21:8

  The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

• Ecclesiastes 7:20

  Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn’t sin.

• Ecclesiastes 7:29

  Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”

• Ecclesiastes 8:11

  Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

• Ecclesiastes 9:3

  This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

• Isaiah 1:5

  Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

• Isaiah 1:6

  From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.

• Isaiah 42:6

  “I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations;

• Isaiah 42:7

  to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

• Isaiah 43:8

  Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.

• Isaiah 48:8

  Yes, you didn’t hear; yes, you didn’t know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

• Isaiah 51:1

  “Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.

• Isaiah 53:6

  All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

• Isaiah 64:6

  For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

• Jeremiah 2:22

  For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 2:29

  “Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 6:7

  As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.

• Jeremiah 13:23

  Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

• Jeremiah 16:12

  and you have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.

• Jeremiah 17:9

  The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

• Ezekiel 16:6

  “‘“When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’ Yes, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’

• Ezekiel 36:25

  I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

• Ezekiel 36:26

  I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

• Ezekiel 37:1

  Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me out in Yahweh’s Spirit, and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.

• Ezekiel 37:2

  He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry.

• Ezekiel 37:3

  He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? I answered, Lord Yahweh, you know.

• Hosea 6:7

  But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.

• Hosea 14:9

  Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

• Micah 7:2

  The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

• Micah 7:3

  Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

• Micah 7:4

  The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.

• Matthew 7:17

  Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

• Matthew 12:34

  You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

• Matthew 12:35

  The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.

• Matthew 15:19

  For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

• Mark 7:21

  For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

• Mark 7:22

  covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

• Mark 7:23

  All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.”

• Luke 1:79

  to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

• John 1:10

  He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.

• John 1:11

  He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.

• John 3:19

  This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

• John 8:23

  He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

• John 14:17

  the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

• Acts 8:23

  For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”

• Romans 2:1

  Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

• Romans 3:9

  What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

• Romans 3:10

  As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

• Romans 3:11

  There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

• Romans 3:12

  They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”

• Romans 3:13

  “Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips”;

• Romans 3:14

  “whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

• Romans 3:15

  “Their feet are swift to shed blood.

• Romans 3:16

  Destruction and misery are in their ways.

• Romans 3:17

  The way of peace, they haven’t known.”

• Romans 3:18

  “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

• Romans 3:19

  Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

• Romans 3:23

  for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

• Romans 5:6

  For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

• Romans 5:12

  Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

• Romans 5:13

  For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

• Romans 5:14

  Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

• Romans 6:6

  knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

• Romans 6:17

  But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

• Romans 6:19

  I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

• Romans 6:20

  For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

• Romans 7:5

  For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.

• Romans 7:11

  for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

• Romans 7:13

  Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.

• Romans 7:14

  For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

• Romans 7:15

  For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

• Romans 7:18

  For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

• Romans 7:19

  For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.

• Romans 7:20

  But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

• Romans 7:21

  I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

• Romans 7:23

  but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

• Romans 8:5

  For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

• Romans 8:6

  For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

• Romans 8:7

  because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

• Romans 8:8

  Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.

• Romans 8:13

  For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

• Romans 11:32

  For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.

• 1 Corinthians 2:14

  Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

• 1 Corinthians 3:3

  for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

• 1 Corinthians 5:9

  I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

• 1 Corinthians 5:10

  yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortionists, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world.

• 2 Corinthians 3:4

  Such confidence we have through Christ toward God;

• 2 Corinthians 3:5

  not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

• 2 Corinthians 5:14

  For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

• Galatians 3:10

  For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

• Galatians 3:11

  Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

• Galatians 3:22

  But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

• Galatians 5:17

  For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

• Galatians 5:19

  Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

• Galatians 5:20

  idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

• Galatians 5:21

  envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

• Ephesians 2:1

  You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

• Ephesians 2:2

  in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

• Ephesians 2:3

  among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

• Ephesians 2:11

  Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision”, (in the flesh, made by hands);

• Ephesians 2:12

  that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

• Ephesians 4:17

  This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

• Ephesians 4:18

  being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

• Ephesians 4:19

  who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

• Ephesians 4:22

  that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

• Ephesians 5:8

  For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

• Ephesians 5:14

  Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

• Colossians 1:13

  who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

• Colossians 1:21

  You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

• Colossians 2:13

  You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

• Colossians 3:5

  Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

• Colossians 3:7

  You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

• 2 Timothy 2:26

  and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

• Titus 3:3

  For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

• James 3:2

  For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

• James 4:5

  Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

• 1 Peter 1:18

  knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

• 1 Peter 2:9

  But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

• 1 Peter 2:25

  For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

• 1 John 1:8

  If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

• 1 John 1:10

  If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

• 1 John 2:16

  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

• 1 John 3:10

  In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

• 1 John 5:19

  We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

• Revelation 3:17

  Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;