100 Bible Verses About Human Nature

And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.

Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:

They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the Lord.

And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king’s son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king.

Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.

And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.

And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.

And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.

Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.

Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men’s words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?

They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the Lord which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?

And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David’s enemy continually.

And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.

But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was with him.

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.

And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the two maidservants’ tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.

And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:

And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.

And the Lord smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.

And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him;

The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.

Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.

But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.

And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.

And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

The Lord looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.

They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together: wherefore that place was called Helkath–hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.

As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:

All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

(For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)

And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.

As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem.

And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into the chamber, that I may eat of thine hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.

Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the Lord, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.

That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.

And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:

The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.

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 Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?

They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid.

A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.

And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that thy soul may bless me.

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.

But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner’s men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.

They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits.

This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?

And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:

And ten young men that bare Joab’s armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.

And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?

He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.

And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.

Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.