Updated American Standard Version
Giving Bible readers what God said not what translators think God meant
The sinful condition is forceful and strong. Genesis 6:5; 8:21 tells us that imperfect humans are mentally bent toward evil. Jeremiah 17:9 informs us that we have a treacherous unknowable heart (inner person), and the apostle Paul informs us that our natural desire is to do bad.
Some Christians have an excessive sense of guilt and feelings of intense unworthiness and of strongly condemn themselves. Obsessed with a guilty conscience, they think that there might not be any hope for them. In short, they feel they have committed the unpardonable sin.
All of us have inherited a sinful nature, meaning that we are currently unable to live up to the mark of perfection in which we were created. In fact, Genesis 6:5 says we all suffer from, ‘our whole bent of thinking, which is nothing but evil.” Genesis 8:21 says that ‘our mind is evil from our very youth.’ Jeremiah 17:9 says that our hearts are treacherous and desperately sick.” Based on this alone, you must read this article.