15 Bible Verses about People's Inability To Serve God

And Joshua will say to the people, Ye will not be able to serve Jehovah, for a holy God is he: a jealous God is he; he will not take away your transgressions and your sins.

Thou knewest David my father, that he was not able to build a house for the name of Jehovah his God from the face of wars which surrounded him, until Jehovah will give them under the soles of his feet

And the priests will not be able to stand to serve from the face of the cloud for the glory of Jehovah filled the house of Jehovah.

Wherefore the thought of the flesh enmity to God: for it is not subject to the law of God, for it cannot be.

And they being in the flesh cannot please God.

For the impossibility of the law, in that it was weak by the flesh, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

Strive earnestly to enter through the narrow gate: for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

For yet Christ, we being weak, Recording to the time died for the impious.

If any come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, and yet also his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

And whoever lifts not his cross, and comes after me, cannot be my disciple.

None can come to me, except the Father having sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, if it remain not in the vine; so neither ye, if ye remain not in me.

I am the vine, ye the branches: he remaining in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

I know thy works: behold, I have given before thee an open door, and none can shut it, for thou hast a little power, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

For I know that in me dwells no good, (that is, in my flesh:) for to will lies near me; but to work good I find not.