Genesis 6:5

5 aThe Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every bintention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Job 14:4

4Who can bring ca clean thing out of an unclean?
There is not one.

Job 15:14-16

14 dWhat is man, ethat he can be pure?
Or he who is fborn of a woman, that he can be righteous?
15Behold, God
Hebrew he
hputs no trust in his iholy ones,
and the heavens are not pure in his sight;
16 jhow much less one who is abominable and kcorrupt,
a man who ldrinks injustice like water!

Psalms 51:5

5Behold, mI was brought forth in iniquity,
and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Psalms 58:3

3 The wicked are nestranged from the womb;
they go astray from birth, speaking lies.

Proverbs 20:9

9 oWho can say, “I have made my heart pure;
I am clean from my sin”?

Ecclesiastes 7:20

20Surely pthere is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

Isaiah 47:12

12 qStand fast in your enchantments
and your many sorceries,
with which you have labored from your youth;
perhaps you may be able to succeed;
perhaps you may inspire terror.
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