the nature of man
Genesis Chapter 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis Chapter 6:5
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.
Jeremiah Chapter 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Romans Chapter 3:10
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Romans Chapter 3:11
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Romans Chapter 3:12
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Romans Chapter 3:13
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Romans Chapter 3:14
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Romans Chapter 3:15
Their feet are swift to shed blood:
Romans Chapter 3:16
Destruction and misery are in their ways:
Romans Chapter 3:17
And the way of peace have they not known:
Romans Chapter 3:18
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Romans Chapter 6:6
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.
Romans Chapter 7:18
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 Chapter 7:24
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Galatians Chapter 5:16
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Galatians Chapter 5:19
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Galatians Chapter 5:20
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Galatians Chapter 5:21
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Colossians Chapter 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
James Chapter 4:1
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?