Total depravity

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• Jeremiah 17:9

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

• Ephesians 2:1–3

  And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

• 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.

• Psalms 51:5

  Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

• John 6:44

  No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

• 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.

• Romans 3:23

  For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

• Psalms 58:3

  The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

• Isaiah 64:6

  But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

• Romans 3:10–11

  As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

• Romans 8:7

  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

• Ephesians 2:3

  Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

• 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.

• Jeremiah 13:23

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

• John 6:65

  And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.

• Ephesians 2:1

  And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

• Ephesians 4:18

  Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

• Romans 5:12

  Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

• Romans 3:12

  They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

• Ecclesiastes 7:20

  For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

• Genesis 8:21

  And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

• Romans 8:7–8

  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

• Romans 1:21

  Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

• John 8:34

  Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

• Romans 6:17

  But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

• John 5:40

  And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

• Ephesians 2:5

  Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

• Romans 3:10–12

  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.

• Isaiah 53:6

  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

• Titus 3:3

  For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

• Psalms 14:3

  They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

• John 3:3

  Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

• Genesis 2:17

  But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

• Romans 6:23

  For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

• Romans 3:10

  As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

• Romans 1:18

  For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

• Romans 9:18–24

  Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? …

• John 3:19

  And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

• Romans 6:20

  For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

• 1 John 2:2

  And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.