15 Bible Verses about People's Inability To Serve God
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And Joshua said to the people, You cannot serve Jehovah, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
You know how David my father could not build a house to the name of Jehovah his God because of the wars which were around him on every side, until Jehovah put them under the soles of his feet.
And the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of Jehovah had filled the house of Jehovah.
because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can it be.
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh;
Strive to enter in at the narrow gate. For I say to you, many will seek to enter in and shall not be able.
For we yet being without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.
No one can come to Me unless the Father who has 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 remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.
I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
I know your works. Behold, I have given before you an open door, and no one can shut it. For 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 thing. For to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I do not find.