The second is that all human life has been corrupted by sin and is totally depraved. Romans 3 is perhaps the biblical chapter that is the most lucid on this truth. In verses ten through thirteen, Paul alludes back to the book of Psalms when he writes:
As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.”
John Calvin offers this: "Man, so far from being just before God, is but rottenness and a worm, abominable and vain, drinking in 'iniquity like water.'" (Institutes, Book III, xii, 5, p. 496).
So how do we reconcile value and worm language? The only way we can is by looking to God. Any value in our humanity is totally, fully due to God's glory. Our Creator has infinite worth and He has bestowed worth on us. Not because we're especially swell, but because He is especially good. This allows us to see the inherent value of all life but also take responsibility for the sin that corrupts us.
Yet the good news of Easter is that you don't need to stay a valuable worm - for that is what we are born as (Eph. 5:8). Easter says that one Man came and this Man was no worm. He was wholly, entirely perfect. He was holy. He was just. He was kind, compassionate, powerful, strong, gentle, gracious, firm, loving.
He was God.
And then this God-Man let Himself be led to the slaughter for a group of sheep - selfish, dumb sheep. Like worms. And He offered Himself an atonement for many and then rose from the dead, giving us new identities. That's why we no longer call ourselves worms, because Jesus Christ has made us sons (Rom. 8:14).
And that is a reason to rejoice.