Supporting Scriptures for the Doctrine of Depravity
The heart is deceitful above
all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? - Jer
17:9
The LORD looked down from
heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any
that did understand, and seek God. - Ps 14:2
They are all gone aside, they are all together become
filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. - Ps
14:3
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother
conceive me. - Ps 51:5
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt
are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none
that doeth good. - Ps 53:1
Can the Ethiopian change his
skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good,
that are accustomed to do evil. - Jer 13:23
He was in the world, and the
world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not. - Joh
1:10 - Joh 1:11
And this is the condemnation,
that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness
rather than light, because their deeds were evil. - Joh 3:19
But I know you, that ye have
not the love of God in you. - John 5:42
As it is written, There is
none righteous, no, not one:
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh
after God.
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become
unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they
have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Their feet are swift to shed blood:
Destruction and misery are in their ways:
And the way of peace have they not known:
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; -
Rom. 3:10 - Rom. 3:18; Rom. 3:23
For I know that nothing good
dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to
do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. -
Romans 7:18
Because the carnal mind is
enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God,
neither indeed can be. -
Ro 8:7
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. - 1Co 2:14
And you hath he quickened,
who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of
this world, according to the prince of the power of the air,
the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
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. - Eph 2:1-3
For men shall be lovers of
their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural
affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent,
fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady,
highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 2
Tim 3:2-4
Unto the pure all
things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and
unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and
conscience is defiled. - Tit 1:15
"What must I do
to be saved?
- Acts 16:30
Man's Ruin and God's Remedy
