Bible Verses About Human fallibility

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

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

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.

Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.

For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.