12 Bible Verses about People's Inability To Serve God

Because the propensity of the flesh is inimical against God: for it is not in subjection to the law of God, neither indeed can it be.

They then who are in the flesh, cannot please God.

For that which was impossible by the law, inasmuch as it was impotent through the flesh, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in that flesh:

Exert all your powers to enter through the strait gate: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but will not be able.

For even then when we were without strength, Christ died in due time for the ungodly.

If any man cometh after me, and hateth not father, and mother, and wife and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, he cannot be my disciple.

No man can come to me, except the Father who hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine: so neither can ye, except ye abide in me.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, this person beareth much fruit: because without me ye can do nothing.

I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it; because thou hast but little strength, yet hast thou kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

For I know that there dwelleth not in me (that is, in my flesh) any good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.