15 Bible Verses about People's Inability To Serve God
Most Relevant Verses
But Joshua told the people, “You will not be able to worship Yahweh, because He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not remove your transgressions and sins.
“You know my father David was not able to build a temple for the name of Yahweh his God. This was because of the warfare all around him until the Lord put his enemies under his feet.
and because of the cloud, the priests were not able to continue ministering, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple.
For the mind-set of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit itself to God’s law, for it is unable to do so.
What the law could not do since it was limited by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending His own Son in flesh like ours under sin’s domain, and as a sin offering,
“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because I tell you, many will try to enter and won’t be able
For while we were still helpless, at the appointed moment, Christ died for the ungodly.
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, and even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.
Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me.
“I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in Me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without Me.
I know your works. Because you have limited strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name, look, I have placed before you an open door that no one is able to close.
For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.
