Depravity of Man

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Proverbs 20:6 OT

  Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

• Proverbs 20:9 OT

  Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

• Proverbs 21:8 OT

  The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

• Ecclesiastes 7:20 OT

  Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

• Ecclesiastes 7:29 OT

  Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”

• Ecclesiastes 8:11 OT

  Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

• Ecclesiastes 9:3 OT

  This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

• Isaiah 1:5 OT

  Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

• Isaiah 1:6 OT

  From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.

• Isaiah 42:6 OT

  “I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations,

• Isaiah 42:7 OT

  to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

• Isaiah 43:8 OT

  Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.

• Isaiah 48:8 OT

  Yes, you didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

• Isaiah 51:1 OT

  “Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.

• Isaiah 53:6 OT

  All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

• Isaiah 64:6 OT

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

• Jeremiah 2:22 OT

  For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 2:29 OT

  “Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 6:7 OT

  As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before me.

• Jeremiah 13:23 OT

  Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

• Jeremiah 16:12 OT

  You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.

• Jeremiah 17:9 OT

  The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

• Ezekiel 16:6 OT

  “ ‘ “When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’ Yes, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’

• Ezekiel 36:25 OT

  I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.