10 Bible Verses about Man's Sinful Nature

For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a human being, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen?

The Preeminent One of Israel does not go back on his word or change his mind, for he is not a human being who changes his mind."

God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful.

I rashly declared, "All men are liars."

how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!

but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.

What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

"I will destroy people and animals; I will destroy the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea. (The idolatrous images of these creatures will be destroyed along with evil people.) I will remove humanity from the face of the earth," says the Lord.

I will make human beings more scarce than pure gold, and people more scarce than gold from Ophir.