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The 17 most-voted verses about total depravity, from 8 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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 6:44 (BSB)

No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 6:44 (KJV)

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up in the last day.

John 6:44 (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)

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)

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)

Then Jesus said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless the Father has granted it to him.”

John 6:65 (BSB)

And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.

John 6:65 (KJV)

He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”

John 6:65 (WEB)

All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”

Romans 3:12 (BSB)

They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Romans 3:12 (KJV)

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

Romans 3:12 (WEB)

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.

Romans 5:12 (BSB)

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Romans 5:12 (KJV)

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

Romans 5:12 (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)

because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

Romans 8:7 (BSB)

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

Romans 8:7 (KJV)

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

Romans 8:7 (WEB)

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

Ephesians 2:1 (BSB)

And you [hath he quickened], who were dead in trespasses and sins;

Ephesians 2:1 (KJV)

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

Ephesians 2:1 (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)

They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

Ephesians 4:18 (BSB)

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

Ephesians 4:18 (KJV)

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 4:18 (WEB)

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