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What Does the Bible Say About Depravity?

Here are 14 Bible verses about depravity, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #1Jeremiah 17:9

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

    BSBThe heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

  2. #2Genesis 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.

    BSBThen 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.

  3. #3Romans 3:23

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

    BSBfor all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

  4. #4Romans 7:18

    For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

    BSBI 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.

  5. #5Psalms 51:5

    Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

    BSBSurely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

  6. #6Isaiah 5:20

    Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

    BSBWoe 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.

  7. #7Ephesians 2:1-3

    And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 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.

    BSBAnd you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in 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. 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.

  8. #81 Corinthians 2:14

    But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

    BSBThe 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.

  9. #9Jeremiah 13:23

    Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

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

  10. #10Ephesians 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.

    BSBAll 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.

  11. #11Psalms 58:3

    The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

    BSBThe wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.

  12. #12Isaiah 64:6

    But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

    BSBEach 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.

  13. #13John 5:40

    And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

    BSByet you refuse to come to Me to have life.

  14. #14Jude 1:7

    Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

    BSBIn like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.

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