Depravity
7 passages
- Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
Read it in context - Romans 7:18
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.
Read it in context - Genesis 6:5
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.
Read it in context - Romans 3:23
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Read it in context - Ephesians 2:1–3
1And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, 2in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience. 3All 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.
Read it in context - Psalm 51:5
Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
Read it in context - Isaiah 5:20
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.
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