23 Bible Verses about Imperfection, Influence Of

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed shall be the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the grass of the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread until thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands because of the ground which the LORD has cursed.

For the creatures were subjected to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected them, with the hope that the same creatures shall be delivered from the slavery of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. For we now know that all the creatures groan together and travail in pain together until now.

As for man, his days are as grass; as an open flower of the field, so he blossoms. For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place shall know it no more.

whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these ye might be made participants of the divine nature, having fled the corruption that is in the world through lust.

For it is certain that we die and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God respect any person; yet he does devise means that his outcasts not be expelled from him.

Thou dost turn unto man until he is broken and thou saith, Become converted, ye sons of Adam. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night. Thou dost cause them to pass by as the waters of a river; they are as a dream, which is strong in the morning like grass.read more.
In the morning it blossoms and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath we are troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. For all our days decline because of thy wrath; we end our years according to the word. The days of our years are seventy, and of the most valiant eighty years, yet their strength is labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

and he who is rich, in his low status, because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,

Behold, he put no trust in his slaves, and his angels he charged with folly.

For if God did not forgive the angels that sinned, but cast them down into the deepest abyss and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

for all have sinned and are made destitute of the glory of God,

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.

If they have sinned against thee (for there is no man that does not sin) and thou should be angry with them and deliver them to the enemy so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near,

If they sin against thee (for there is no man who does not sin,)and thou art angry with them and deliver them over before their enemies so that those that take them carry them away captives unto an enemy land far off or near,

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is no one that does good, no, not one.

If thou, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall endure?

Who shall be able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

All we like sheep have become lost; we have turned each one to his own way; and the LORD transposed in him the iniquity of us all.

But we were all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses as filthy rags; and we all fell as the leaves of a tree; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

But the scripture has concluded all under sin that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to the believers.

For we all offend in many things. If any man offends not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to govern the whole body with restraint.

neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, with which thou didst testify against them.