Heidelberg Catechism · 1563

Q5. Can you keep all this perfectly?

No, I am inclined by nature to hate God and my neighbour.
Answer · Heidelberg Catechism

Scripture proofs

  1. [1]
    Romans 3:10

    As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

    Romans 3:23

    For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

    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 have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

  2. [2]
    Genesis 6:5

    And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

    Genesis 8:21

    And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

    Jeremiah 17:9

    The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

    Romans 7:23

    But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

    Romans 8:7

    Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

    Ephesians 2:3

    Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

    Titus 3:3

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

Proof texts as given in the original; verse text from the King James Version.