The depravity of man is taught in almost every book in the Bible. This teaching shows man his need of a Saviour.
· (Genesis 3: 15) The fall … in the garden of the Eden (The original sin)
· (Genesis 6: 5) …the imagination of the thoughts of his heart was evil continually…
· (Genesis 8: 21) ... the imagination man's heart was evil from his youth.
· (Psalms 51: 5) … in sin my mother conceived me, (born in sin)
· (Psalms 58: 3) …the wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray as soon as they are born speaking lies.
· (Jeremiah 17: 9)… heart is deceitful…
· (Ecclesiastes 9: 3) …the heart of the sons of men is full of evil.
· (Isaiah 55:8) “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are my ways your ways”, says the Lord.
· (John 7:7) … the world hates me because I testified to it that its works are evil.
· (John 3:19) … and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
· (John 3: 20) …for everyone that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, for fear that his deeds should be exposed.
· (Romans 3: 9)… "all" under the dominion of sin
· (Romans 5: 19) … for by one man's disobedience (Adam) many were made the sinners.
· (Romans 5: 21) … sin reigned in death… (the sinful nature)
· (Romans 7: 5) … when we were in sin…
· (Romans 7: 9, 10) … I was alive once without the law but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
· (Romans 7: 14)… Carnal "sold" under sin. Adam sold the human family out.
· (Ephesians 2:3)… we 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 to children of wrath.
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