depravity

The 13 most-voted verses about depravity, from 9 books, ranked by the OpenBible.info community.

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

Jeremiah 17:9 (BSB)

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

Jeremiah 17:9 (KJV)

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

Jeremiah 17:9 (WEB)

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.

Genesis 6:5 (BSB)

¶ 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 6:5 (KJV)

The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

Genesis 6:5 (WEB)

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

Romans 3:23 (BSB)

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

Romans 3:23 (KJV)

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

Romans 3:23 (WEB)

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

Psalm 51:5 (BSB)

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

Psalm 51:5 (KJV)

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

Psalm 51:5 (WEB)

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.

Isaiah 5:20 (BSB)

¶ 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!

Isaiah 5:20 (KJV)

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:20 (WEB)

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.

Romans 7:18 (BSB)

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.

Romans 7:18 (KJV)

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 7:18 (WEB)

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

Jeremiah 13:23 (BSB)

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

Jeremiah 13:23 (KJV)

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

Jeremiah 13:23 (WEB)

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.

1 Corinthians 2:14 (BSB)

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.

1 Corinthians 2:14 (KJV)

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 2:14 (WEB)

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.

Ephesians 2:3 (BSB)

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.

Ephesians 2:3 (KJV)

We also all once lived among them 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 2:3 (WEB)

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

Psalm 58:3 (BSB)

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

Psalm 58:3 (KJV)

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

Psalm 58:3 (WEB)

Each 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.

Isaiah 64:6 (BSB)

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.

Isaiah 64:6 (KJV)

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.

Isaiah 64:6 (WEB)

yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.

John 5:40 (BSB)

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

John 5:40 (KJV)

Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

John 5:40 (WEB)

In 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.

Jude 1:7 (BSB)

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.

Jude 1:7 (KJV)

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

Jude 1:7 (WEB)

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