total depravity

⁹The heart is depraved above all things, and it is unsearchable, who can know it?

¹And you were once dead in your sins and offenses, ²in which you walked in times past, according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of this sky, the spirit who now works in the sons of distrust. ³And we too were all conversant in these things, in times past, by the desires of our flesh, acting according to the will of the flesh and according to our own thoughts. And so we were, by nature, sons of wrath, even like the others.

¹⁴But the animal nature of man does not perceive these things that are of the Spirit of God. For it is foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand it, because it must be examined spiritually.

⁷For behold, I was conceived in iniquities, and in sinfulness did my mother conceive me.

⁴⁴No one is able to come to me, unless the Father, who has sent me, has drawn him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

⁵Then God, seeing that the wickedness of men was great upon the earth and that every thought of their heart was intent upon evil at all times,

²³For all have sinned and all are in need of the glory of God.

⁴Sinners have become foreigners from the womb; they have gone astray from conception. They have been speaking falsehoods.

⁶And we have all become like the unclean. And all our justices are like a rag of menstruation. And we have all fallen away, like a leaf. And our iniquities have carried us away, like the wind.

¹⁰just as it was written: “There is no one who is just. ¹¹There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks God.

⁷And the wisdom of the flesh is inimical to God. For it is not subject to the law of God, nor can it be.

³And we too were all conversant in these things, in times past, by the desires of our flesh, acting according to the will of the flesh and according to our own thoughts. And so we were, by nature, sons of wrath, even like the others.

¹⁸For I know that what is good does not live within me, that is, within my flesh. For the willingness to do good lies close to me, but the carrying out of that good, I cannot reach.

²³If the Ethiopian is able to change his skin, or the leopard is able to change his spots, then you also may be able to do well, though you have learned evil.

⁶⁵But there are some among you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who were unbelieving and which one would betray him.

¹⁸having their intellect obscured, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is within them, because of the blindness of their hearts.

¹And you were once dead in your sins and offenses,

¹²Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into this world, and through sin, death; so also death was transferred to all men, to all who have sinned.

¹²All have gone astray; together they have become useless. There is no one who does good; there is not even one.