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Bible Verses About the nature of man

15 key scriptures

What does the Bible say about the nature of man? Browse 15 carefully selected verses that illuminate this biblical theme.

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TranslationKey Verse: Romans 7:18
King James (KJV)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.

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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.
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
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. every: or, the whole imagination: the Hebrew word signifieth not only the imagination, but also the purposes and desires continually: Heb. every day
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. ye: or, fulfil not
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.
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? fightings: or, brawlings lusts: or, pleasures
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? the body: or, this body of death
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

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