Mark 7:21
For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
Jeremiah 17:9
The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?
Genesis 6:5
But the Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.
Genesis 8:21
And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.
Job 14:4
Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!
Job 15:14-16
What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 25:4
How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
Psalm 14:1
For the music director; by David. Fools say to themselves, "There is no God." They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right.
Psalm 14:3
Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one!
Psalm 53:1
For the music director; according to the machalath style; a well-written song by David. Fools say to themselves, "There is no God." They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right.
Psalm 53:3
Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one!
Psalm 58:2-3
No! You plan how to do what is unjust; you deal out violence in the earth.
Proverbs 4:23
Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it are the sources of life.
Proverbs 15:25
The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but he maintains the boundaries of the widow.
Isaiah 59:7
They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.
Jeremiah 4:14
"Oh people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil so that you may yet be delivered. How long will you continue to harbor up wicked schemes within you?
Ezekiel 38:10
"'This is what the sovereign Lord says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.
Matthew 9:4
When Jesus saw their reaction he said, "Why do you respond with evil in your hearts?
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
Matthew 23:25-28
"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
Luke 16:15
But Jesus said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in men's eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God's sight.
Acts 5:4
Before it was sold, did it not belong to you? And when it was sold, was the money not at your disposal? How have you thought up this deed in your heart? You have not lied to people but to God!"
Acts 8:22
Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that he may perhaps forgive you for the intent of your heart.
Romans 7:5
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.
Romans 7:8
But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
Romans 8:7-8
because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.
Galatians 5:19-21
Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,
Titus 3:3
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.
James 1:14-15
But each one is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desires.
James 2:4
If so, have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil motives?
James 4:1-3
Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?
1 Peter 4:2-3
in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.