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Bible passages about “Total depravity”

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Best matchRomans 1:28–29

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28 Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

Romans 3:7–12

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7 However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner? 8 Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved! 9 What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin. 10 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one. 11 There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. 12 All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”

Psalms 14:3

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3 All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

Psalms 53:3

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3 All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

Romans 11:32

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32 For God has consigned everyone to disobedience so that He may have mercy on everyone.

2 Esdras 7:48

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48 For an evil heart has grown up in us, which has led us astray from these commandments and has brought us into corruption and into the ways of death. It has shown us the paths of perdition and removed us far from life—and that, not a few only, but nearly all who have been created.” (WEB)

Wisdom of Solomon 12:10–11

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10 but judging them little by little you gave them a chance to repent, not being ignorant that their nature by birth was evil, their wickedness inborn, and that their manner of thought would never be changed. (WEB) 11 For they were a cursed seed from the beginning. It wasn’t through fear of any that you left them unpunished for their sins. (WEB)

Romans 3:23

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23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Genesis 6:5–7

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5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time. 6 And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. 7 So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”

Ephesians 2:3

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3 All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

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