14 Bible Verses about Human Nature

For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?

Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

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?

Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

just as it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one,

God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

A psalm of David. Lord, who may be a guest in your home? Who may live on your holy hill?

among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest

in that our gospel did not come to you merely in words, but in power and in the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction (surely you recall the character we displayed when we came among you to help you).

Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother's womb. I will give you thanks because your deeds are awesome and amazing. You knew me thoroughly; my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret and sewed together in the depths of the earth.read more.
Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb. All the days ordained for me were recorded in your scroll before one of them came into existence.