Bible Verses About Original Sin
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for original sin, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,690 votes, led by Isaiah 48:8. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Original Sin
Isaiah 48:8290 votes
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.
Romans 5:12242 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:
Psalms 51:5147 votes
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Psalms 58:3104 votes
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Psalms 53:3103 votes
Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Ecclesiastes 9:393 votes
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.
Ephesians 2:1-389 votes
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
1 John 1:8-1073 votes
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Romans 3:10-1857 votes
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Ezekiel 18:2052 votes
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.
Psalms 14:2-351 votes
The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
Romans 3:2350 votes
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Ezekiel 18:449 votes
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Genesis 3:2244 votes
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
Isaiah 59:243 votes
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Deuteronomy 1:3941 votes
Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
Genesis 3:1-1938 votes
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Jeremiah 17:936 votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Romans 7:9-1134 votes
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Job 31:1832 votes
(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)
Genesis 2:1730 votes
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Romans 6:2329 votes
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Ephesians 2:329 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.
Ecclesiastes 7:2927 votes
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Romans 6:1227 votes
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
What does the Bible say about original sin?
Readers most often cite Isaiah 48:8 on the subject of original sin. Across 2,690 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Romans 5:12, Psalms 51:5, Psalms 58:3. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.