14 Bible Verses about Human Nature

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.

“The heart is more deceitful than all else
And is desperately sick;
Who can understand it?

Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone.

What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me.

as it is written,
“There is none righteous, not even one;

God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

A Psalm of David.
O Lord, who may abide in Your tent?
Who may dwell on Your holy hill?

Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

for our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction; just as you know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.

For You formed my inward parts;
You wove me in my mother’s womb.
I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;
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Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in Your book were all written
The days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them.