Paul says that we “were by nature the children of wrath, even as others” (Ephesians 2:3). Concerning this evil, natural heart of man, the Bible plainly states: The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9). And again, the apostle Paul says in his epistle to the Romans, chapter 3, verses 10 to 12: There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are