What does the Bible say about being born in sin?
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The Bible teaches that all people are born into a fallen human race, bearing a sinful nature and needing God’s saving grace in Jesus Christ. David confesses that he was sinful from conception in Psalm 51:5, and Psalm 58:3 describes human waywardness from birth. Romans 5:12 and 5:19 connect sin’s entrance and condemnation to Adam’s disobedience, while Romans 3:10 and 3:23 affirm that none is righteous and all have sinned. Genesis 8:21 and Ephesians 2:3 likewise portray the deep, natural bent of the human heart toward sin. Yet this doctrine does not remove personal responsibility; it magnifies the mercy of God, who provides righteousness and new life through Christ.
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- Psalms 51:5 6 votes
Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.
- Psalms 58:3 4 votes
The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
- Romans 3:23 4 votes
for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
- Romans 5:12 4 votes
Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death passed to all men because all sinned.
- Ecclesiastes 7:20 3 votes
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.
- Genesis 8:21 2 votes
Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
- Romans 5:19 2 votes
For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.
- Romans 3:10 2 votes
As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.
- Ephesians 2:3 2 votes
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.
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