21 Bible Verses about The Sin Nature

that, as to your former life, you put off the old man, which is corrupt, according to its deceitful desires,

knowing this, that our former man has been crucified with him, in order that the sinful body may be deprived of its power, so that we should no longer serve sin:

For those who are according to the flesh, mind the things of the flesh; but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds,

Now the works of the flesh are well known, and they are these lewdness, uncleanness, wantonness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strifes, jealousies, anger, party-spirit, divisions, sects, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; with respect to which, I tell you now, as I also told you in times past, that those who practice such things shall riot inherit the kingdom of God.

Those, then, who are in the flesh, can not please God.

Put to death, therefore, your members that are on the earth, lewdness, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

For this reason, as by one man sin entered into the world, and by his sin, death; and so death passed through to all men, because all have sinned:

That which is begotten of the flesh, is flesh; and that which is begotten of the Spirit, is spirit. Wonder not that I said to you, you must all be born again,

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

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be. Those, then, who are in the flesh, can not please God.

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

What man is there of you, of whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? And if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If then you, being 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?

For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. For when the Gentiles, who have not a law, do, by nature, the things of the law, these who have not a law, are a law to themselves,

For what I do, I know not: for that which I wish to do, this I do not; but that which I hate, this I do.

Now, if I do that which I wish not to do, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.

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

Even you, being dead to offenses and sins,

For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace. Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be.

But an animal man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he can not know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

And death and hades were cast into the lake of fire: this is the second death. And if any one was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.