21 Bible Verses about The Sin Nature

that you should lay aside your former mode of life the old man destroyed by deceitful desires,

knowing this that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer serve sin;

For they who are according to the flesh mind the things of the flesh, but they who are according to the spirit the things of the spirit;

lie not one to another; put off the old man with his doings,

For the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, impurity, lewdness, idolatry, magic, enmities, strife, envy, anger, contentions, dissensions, heresies, murders, drunkenness, revellings and the like, of which I tell you before, as I have also previously told you, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

And they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry,

Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so came upon all men because all sinned,??13 for till the law there was sin in the world, but sin is not accounted where there is no law

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is a spirit. Wonder not 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 a spirit.

Because the minding of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God; for it can not be. And they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

If we say we have not sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Or is there any man of you, who, if his son asks bread of him, will give him a stone? or if he asks a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to them that ask him.

for when the nations which have not the law perform by nature [the commandments] of the law, these who have not the law are a law to themselves, and they show the work of the law written in their minds, their consciences testifying with them, and their judgments mutually acusing or defending one another;??16 in the day when God shall judge the secret [doings] of men according to my gospel through Jesus Christ.

For what I do this I approve not; for I do not what I wish, but what I hate, this I do.

But if what I wish not this I do, I no longer do it, but sin which dwells in me.

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

And you being dead in trespasses and sins,??2 in which you formerly walked according to the life of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit which now operates in the children of disobedience,

for the minding of the flesh is death, but the minding of the Spirit is life and peace. Because the minding of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God; for it can not be.

But the natural man receives not the [things] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them, for they are spiritually discerned.

And Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And whoever was not found enrolled in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.