13 Bible Verses about Human Nature, Overcoming

For no trial has befallen you but what is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tried beyond what you are able, but with the trial will order the event, that you may be able to endure.

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are opposed one to another, so that you do not what you wish.

But if Christ is in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the spirit is life on account of righteousness.

But you are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. And if any man has not the spirit of Christ he is not his.

Since then the children have partaken of blood and flesh, he in like manner also partook of them, that through death he might destroy him that has the power of death, that is the devil,

through which have been given us very great and precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption which is in the world by inordinate desire,

that the righteous ordinance of the law may be performed by us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

And I say, walk in the Spirit and perform not the desire of the flesh.

These things have I told you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have affliction; but be of good courage, I have overcome the world.

Christ therefore having suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

I wrote to you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God continues in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Watch and pray that you enter not into trial; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.