Bible verses about "depravity" | Williams

⁴⁰ but you refuse to come to me to get possession of life.

³⁴ Jesus answered them, "I most solemnly say to you, everyone who lives in sin is a slave of sin.

¹⁴ An unspiritual man does not accept the things that the Spirit of God teaches, for they are nonsense to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are appreciated by spiritual insight.

³ once lived while gratifying the cravings of our lower nature, as we continued to carry out the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were exposed to God's wrath, as the rest of mankind.

²³ For everybody has sinned and everybody continues to come short of God's glory,

¹⁸ For I know that nothing good has its home in me; that is, in my lower self; I have the will but not the power to do what is right.

¹ You too were dead because of the shortcomings and sins ² in which you once lived in accordance with the spirit of this present world, and the mighty prince of the air, who is always at work in the disobedient, among whom all of us, we Jews as well as you heathen, ³ once lived while gratifying the cravings of our lower nature, as we continued to carry out the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were exposed to God's wrath, as the rest of mankind.