Bible Verses About Human Sinfulness

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

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

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.

Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

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.

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

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

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

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.

We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

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

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

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

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

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

All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

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

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;

He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

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

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the Lord; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;

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

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.

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

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

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

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.