I. Values and Human Nature:
 Middle East: Mixed > Evil  > Good

A. Mixed:

 Gen 2:7

 Gen 6:5-8

 Gen 8:20-22

 2 Ezra (Esdras) 4:30

 Mark 7:21-23

 Gal 5:15-26

B. Evil

 Romans 5:12-21
 Romans 6:12-13
 Romans 7:14-20
 Romans 8:9-14

 Gal 4:8-10

 1 Tim 1:12-17

 Titus 3:1-8

C. Good

 Gen 1:1--2:3

 Mark 10:17-22

    Rabbi Samuel ben Nahman in Genesis Rabbah 9,7 offers this comment on Genesis 1:31 ("God saw that everything he made was very good"):

    "And behold it was very good."  This is the "evil tendency."  Is then the evil tendency good? Yet were it not for the evil tendency no man would build a house, nor marry a wife, nor beget children, nor engage in trade. Solomon said: "All labor and all Excelling in work is a man's rivalry with his neighbor." (Qoheleth 4:4)