15 Bible Verses about People's Inability To Serve God
Most Relevant Verses
Joshua warned the people, "You will not keep worshiping the Lord, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God who will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.
"You know that my father David was unable to build a temple to honor the Lord his God, for he was busy fighting battles on all fronts while the Lord subdued his enemies.
The priests could not carry out their duties because of the cloud; the Lord's glory filled his temple.
because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.
For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
"Exert every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.
For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, 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 at the last day.
Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in 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 -- bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.
I know your deeds. (Look! I have put in front of you an open door that no one can shut.) I know that you have little strength, but you have obeyed my word and have not denied my name.
For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.
