Bible Verses About Human Nature

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

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

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.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

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:

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.

He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

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

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

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.

Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

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.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

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