Bible Verses About Human Nature

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

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

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

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

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

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.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

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;

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

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

This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth 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.

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

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

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.

And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

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.

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

Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lord.

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:

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

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts.

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

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.