What does the Bible say about depravity?

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• Jeremiah 17:9

  The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

• Genesis 6:5

  Yahweh 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.

• Romans 3:23

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

• Romans 7:18

  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.

• Psalms 51:5

  Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

• Isaiah 5:20

  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!

• Ephesians 2:1-3

  [1] You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, [2] in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience; [3] among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

• 1 Corinthians 2:14

  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.

• Jeremiah 13:23

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

• Ephesians 2:3

  among whom we also all once lived in the lust 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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