The nature of man

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• Romans 7:18

  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.

• Romans 3:10–18

  As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. …

• Colossians 3:5

  Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

• Galatians 5:19–21

  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

• Jeremiah 17:9

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

• Genesis 6:5

  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.

• Galatians 5:16

  This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

• James 4:1

  From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

• Romans 6:6

  Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

• Romans 7:24

  O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

• Galatians 5:19

  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

• Genesis 1:27

  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

• 1 Corinthians 2:14

  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.

• Romans 9:1

  I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

• John 4:24

  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

• 2 Corinthians 4:16

  For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.