Total Depravity

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

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, — read the full passage →

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.

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

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

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.

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

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one. — read the full passage →

For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

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

among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

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.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

He said, “For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

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

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

They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn’t sin.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike every living thing, as I have done.

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

Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

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

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one. — read the full passage →

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

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

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

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

So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires. — read the full passage →

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

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.

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

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,

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

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

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

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

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

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.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

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.

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.

For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? — read the full passage →

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

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin. — read the full passage →

but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, — read the full passage →

The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: — read the full passage →

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is no one who does good. — read the full passage →

Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.”

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. — read the full passage →

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produces fruit with patience.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

When Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

(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,

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.