"God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God. Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one." Psa. 53:2, 3.
"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." Gen. 6:5. "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately (incurable, N. T.) wicked: who can know it?" Jer. 17:9.
"Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me." Psa. 51:5.
"We are all as an unclean thing." Isa. 64:6.
"Verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity." Psa. 39:5.
"There is no difference: for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." Rom. 3:22, 23.