Bible Verses About Total Depravity
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for total depravity, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,693 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 Total Depravity
Jeremiah 17:9198 votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Ephesians 2:1-3158 votes
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Psalms 51:5137 votes
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
1 Corinthians 2:14137 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.
John 6:44133 votes
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Genesis 6:5131 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 3:23116 votes
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Psalms 58:3101 votes
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Romans 3:10-1189 votes
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Isaiah 64:687 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.
Romans 8:785 votes
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Romans 7:1881 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.
Ephesians 2:377 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.
Jeremiah 13:2376 votes
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
John 6:6575 votes
And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
Ephesians 4:1871 votes
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Ephesians 2:170 votes
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Romans 5:1266 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:
Romans 3:1261 votes
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Ecclesiastes 7:2046 votes
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Genesis 8:2143 votes
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.
Romans 8:7-843 votes
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Romans 1:2139 votes
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
John 5:4037 votes
And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
John 8:3437 votes
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
What does the Bible say about total depravity?
Readers most often cite Jeremiah 17:9 on the subject of total depravity. Across 3,693 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 2:1-3, Psalms 51:5, 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.