Bible Verses About The Nature of Man
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for the nature of man, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 291 votes, led by Romans 7:18. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about The Nature of Man
Romans 7:1851 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.
Romans 3:10-1831 votes
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Colossians 3:525 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Jeremiah 17:923 votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Galatians 5:19-2122 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Genesis 6:516 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 6:616 votes
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.
James 4:115 votes
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Galatians 5:1614 votes
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Romans 7:2413 votes
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Genesis 1:2712 votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Galatians 5:1912 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
John 4:2411 votes
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Romans 9:110 votes
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
1 Corinthians 2:1410 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.
2 Corinthians 4:1610 votes
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
What does the Bible say about the nature of man?
Readers most often cite Romans 7:18 on the subject of the nature of man. Across 291 votes, 16 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Romans 3:10-18, Colossians 3:5, Jeremiah 17:9. This page lists all 16 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.