14 Bible Verses about Human Nature, Overcoming

You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.

For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.

And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.

And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One;

And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh.

So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.

But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.

I have said all these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble: but take heart! I have overcome the world.

So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin;

I have sent a letter to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I have sent a letter to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is in you, and because you have overcome the Evil One.

Do not let evil overcome you, but overcome evil by good.

And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.

Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.