13 Bible Verses about Human Nature, Overcoming

It is no superhuman temptation that you have had. And God can be depended on, not to let you be tried beyond your strength, but when temptation comes, to give you a way out of it, so that you can withstand it.

For the physical cravings are against the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are against the physical; the two are in opposition, so that you cannot do anything you please.

But if Christ is in your hearts, though your bodies are dead in consequence of sin, your spirits have life in consequence of uprightness.

But you are not physical but spiritual, if God's Spirit has really taken possession of you; for unless a man has Christ's spirit, he does not belong to Christ.

Therefore since these children referred to have the same mortal nature, Jesus also shared it, like them, in order that by his death he might dethrone the lord of death, the devil,

Thus he has given us his precious and splendid promises so that through them you may escape the corrupting influences that exist in the world through passion, and come to share in the divine nature.

so that the requirement of the Law might be fully met in our case, since we live not on the physical but on the spiritual plane.

I mean this: Live by the Spirit, and then you will not indulge your physical cravings.

I have told you all this, so that through me you may find peace. In the world you have trouble; but take courage! I have conquered the world."

Since Christ therefore has suffered in our physical nature, you must also arm yourselves with the same resolve. For he who suffers in his physical nature has done with sin,

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who has existed from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and God's message is always in your hearts, and you have been victorious over the evil one.

Do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good.

You must all watch, and pray that you may not be exposed to trial! One's spirit is eager, but flesh and blood are weak!"