What does the Bible say about total depravity?

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• Jeremiah 17:9

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

• 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.

• Psalms 51:5

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

• John 6:44

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

• 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;

• Psalms 58:3

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

• Isaiah 64:6

  For we are all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

• Romans 3:10-11

  [10] As it is written, "There is no one righteous. No, not one. [11] There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

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