Bible Verses About Human Nature
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for human nature, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,097 votes, led by Matthew 15:19. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Human Nature
Matthew 15:19348 votes
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Romans 2:14-16339 votes
For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
Jeremiah 17:9242 votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
1 Corinthians 2:14172 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.
Mark 7:21-23150 votes
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Isaiah 55:894 votes
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
Romans 5:1272 votes
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:
2 Timothy 1:771 votes
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
1 John 1:8-1067 votes
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Proverbs 19:357 votes
The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 3:1153 votes
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
2 Peter 1:450 votes
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.
Ecclesiastes 7:1-2947 votes
A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.
Hebrews 4:1543 votes
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.
Romans 3:2342 votes
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Romans 5:1-2137 votes
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Romans 6:2336 votes
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Joshua 11:2035 votes
For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Isaiah 48:1033 votes
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Luke 23:4732 votes
Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.
Genesis 6:531 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.
2 Corinthians 5:1731 votes
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
John 8:4430 votes
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
1 Corinthians 3:1-2330 votes
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
Hebrews 1:330 votes
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
What does the Bible say about human nature?
Readers most often cite Matthew 15:19 on the subject of human nature. Across 4,097 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Romans 2:14-16, Jeremiah 17:9, 1 Corinthians 2:14. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.