Depravity of Man

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Genesis 8:21 OT

  Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have…

• Genesis 6:5-7 OT

  Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil. Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart. Yahweh…

• Genesis 6:11-13 OT

  The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the…

• Deuteronomy 32:10 OT

  He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

• 2 Chronicles 6:36 OT

  “If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

• Job 4:17-19 OT

  ‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker? Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error. How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the…

• Job 9:2 OT

  “Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

• Job 9:3 OT

  If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

• Job 9:20 OT

  Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.

• Job 9:29 OT

  I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

• Job 9:30 OT

  If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

• Job 11:12 OT

  An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

• Job 14:4 OT

  Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

• Job 15:14-16 OT

  What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight; how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,…

• Job 25:4-6 OT

  How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean? Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight; How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!”

• Psalms 5:9 OT

  For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

• Psalms 14:1-3 OT

  The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good. Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought…

• Psalms 51:5 OT

  Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

• Psalms 53:1-3 OT

  The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good. God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek…

• Psalms 58:1-5 OT

  Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men? No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth. The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward…

• Psalms 94:11 OT

  Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

• Psalms 130:3 OT

  If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

• Psalms 143:2 OT

  Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

• Proverbs 10:20 OT

  The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.