21 Bible Verses about The Sin Nature

you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,

knowing as we do that our old self has been crucified with him in order to crush the sinful body and free us from any further slavery to sin

For those who follow the flesh have their interests in the flesh, and those who follow the Spirit have their interests in the Spirit.

Tell no lies to one another; you have stripped off the old nature with its practices,

Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, magic, quarrels, dissension, jealousy, temper, rivalry, factions, party-spirit, envy, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God.

Those who are in the flesh cannot satisfy God.

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

Thus, then, sin came into the world by one man, and death came in by sin; and so death spread to all men, inasmuch as all men sinned.

What is born of the flesh is flesh: what is born of the Spirit is Spirit. Do not wonder at me telling you, 'You must all be born from above.'

What is born of the flesh is flesh: what is born of the Spirit is Spirit.

For the interests of the flesh are hostile to God; they do not yield to the law of God (indeed they cannot). Those who are in the flesh cannot satisfy God.

If we say, 'We are not guilty,' we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us;

Why, which of you, when asked by his son for a loaf, will hand him a stone? Or, if he asks a fish, will you hand him a serpent? Well, if for all your evil you know to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him?

[Move vss 14,15 to follow vs 16] (When Gentiles who have no law obey instinctively the Law's requirements, they are a law to themselves, even though they have no law; they exhibit the effect of the Law written on their hearts, their conscience bears them witness, as their moral convictions accuse or it may be defend them.)

I cannot understand my own actions; I do not act as I want to act; on the contrary, I do what I detest.

Well, if I act against my wishes, it is not I who do the deed but sin that dwells within me.

Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."

And as with us so with you. You were dead in the trespasses and sins

The interests of the flesh mean death, the interests of the Spirit mean life and peace. For the interests of the flesh are hostile to God; they do not yield to the law of God (indeed they cannot).

The unspiritual man rejects these truths of the Spirit of God; to him they are 'sheer folly,' he cannot understand them. And the reason is, that they must be read with the spiritual eye.

Then Death and Hades were flung into the lake of fire, and whoever was not found enrolled in the book of Life was flung into the lake of fire ??which is the second death, the lake of fire.