12 Bible Verses about People's Inability To Serve God
Most Relevant Verses
For the interests of the flesh are hostile to God; they do not yield to the law of God (indeed they cannot).
For God has done what the Law, weakened here by the flesh, could not do; by sending his own Son in the guise of sinful flesh, to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
"Strive to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in and not be able,
For when we were still in weakness, Christ died in due time for the ungodly. For the ungodly!
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, aye and his own life, he cannot be a disciple of mine;
No one is able to come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me (and I will raise him up on the last day).
Remain in me, as I remain in you: just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself, without remaining on the vine, neither can you, unless you remain in me.
I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains in me, as I in him, bears rich fruit (because apart from me you can do nothing).
Lo, I have set a door open before you which no one is able to shut; for though your strength is small, you have kept my word, you have not renounced my Name.
For in me (that is, in my flesh) no good dwells, I know; the wish is there, but not the power of doing what is right.
