12 Bible Verses about People's Inability To Serve God

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be.

Those, then, who are in the flesh, can not please God.

For what the law could not do, because it was weak through the flesh, God has done, who, sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for a sin-offering, condemned sin in the flesh,

Strive to enter in through the strait gate; for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

For when we were yet without strength, at the appointed time, Christ died for the ungodly.

If any one comes to me, and hates not his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and his own life also, he can not be my disciple.

And whoever does not bear his cross, and come after me, can not be my disciple.

no man can come to me, unless the Father, who sent me, draw him; and I will raise him up at the last day.

Abide in me, and I will abide in you. As the branch can not bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me.

I am the vine, you are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; for apart from me you can do nothing.

I know your works: behold, I have set before you an open door that no one is able to shut, because you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good; for to will is present with me; but to perform that which is good, I find not.