Human Nature

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves, — read the full passage →

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, — read the full passage →

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” says Yahweh.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. — read the full passage →

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth. — read the full passage →

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

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

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, “Certainly this was a righteous man.”

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. — read the full passage →

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

God of my praise, don’t remain silent, — read the full passage →

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregardhis own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: — read the full passage →

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!” — read the full passage →

If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

He called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases. — read the full passage →

“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things: — read the full passage →

Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, — read the full passage →

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and to the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? — read the full passage →

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’” then he says,

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful. — read the full passage →

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

who did not sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God; — read the full passage →

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man, — read the full passage →

Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth! — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. — read the full passage →

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, hear Yahweh’s word. — read the full passage →

Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation! — read the full passage →

Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips. — read the full passage →

who did not sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.” — read the full passage →

although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. — read the full passage →

Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh. — read the full passage →

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? — read the full passage →

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him. — read the full passage →

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →