Q110. Can you name a few specific ways in which the wickedness of the human heart reveals itself?
Yes; by its secret craving for sin even when the Word forbids it; by its tendency to put off repentance; by its weariness with holy duties; by its readiness to forget God; by its efforts to minimize and conceal sin; by its pretending to be better than it is; by its delight in sinning when no one is watching; by its hardening itself against God's warnings and judgments; and by its deep pull toward unbelief, atheism, and the like.
Scripture Proofs — King James Version
Proverbs 1:24-26
Isaiah 43:22
“But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.”
Malachi 1:12-13
Judges 3:7
“And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.”
Jeremiah 2:32
“Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.”
Psalm 106:21
“They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;”
Hosea 2:13
“And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.”
Proverbs 30:20
“Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.”
Jeremiah 2:25
“Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.”
Romans 1:32
“Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.”
2:5
Zephaniah 1:11-13