21 Bible Verses about The Sin Nature

You were taught, with regard to your former manner of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful lusts;

We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire and greed, which is idolatry.

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to all men, because all men sinned.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so; and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Or what man of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

When Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts accusing or else excusing them

I do not understand what I do. For I do not do what I want to do, but I do what I hate.

Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead."

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so;

But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.