Bible Verses About Depravity
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for depravity, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 398 votes, led by Jeremiah 17:9. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Depravity
Jeremiah 17:954 votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Genesis 6:537 votes
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.
Romans 3:2334 votes
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Romans 7:1833 votes
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.
Psalms 51:531 votes
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Ephesians 2:1-330 votes
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Isaiah 5:2029 votes
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Jeremiah 13:2324 votes
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
1 Corinthians 2:1423 votes
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.
Psalms 58:321 votes
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Ephesians 2:321 votes
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.
Isaiah 64:614 votes
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.
John 5:4014 votes
And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
Jude 1:712 votes
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Romans 1:2911 votes
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
John 8:3410 votes
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
What does the Bible say about depravity?
Readers most often cite Jeremiah 17:9 on the subject of depravity. Across 398 votes, 16 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Genesis 6:5, Romans 3:23, Romans 7:18. This page lists all 16 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.