Galatians 5:17
For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
Romans 8:5-8
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
Romans 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Psalm 19:12-13
Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults.
Psalm 51:1-5
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
Psalm 51:10-12
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Psalm 65:3
When iniquities prevail against me, you atone for our transgressions.
Psalm 119:4-6
You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently.
Psalm 119:20
My soul is consumed with longing for your rules at all times.
Psalm 119:24-25
Your testimonies are my delight; they are my counselors.
Psalm 119:32
I will run in the way of your commandments when you enlarge my heart!
Psalm 119:35
Lead me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in it.
Psalm 119:40
Behold, I long for your precepts; in your righteousness give me life!
Psalm 119:133
Keep steady my steps according to your promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me.
Psalm 119:159
Consider how I love your precepts! Give me life according to your steadfast love.
Psalm 119:176
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.
Psalm 130:3
If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
Isaiah 6:5
And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!"
Matthew 5:6
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Matthew 12:30
Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.
Matthew 16:17
And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 16:23
But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man."
Matthew 26:41
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
Luke 22:33
Peter said to him, "Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death."
Luke 22:46
and he said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation."
Luke 22:54-61
Then they seized him and led him away, bringing him into the high priest's house, and Peter was following at a distance.
John 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Romans 7:7-8
What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."
Romans 7:10-25
The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.
Galatians 3:21
Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.
Philippians 3:12-16
Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.
James 3:2
For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
James 4:5-6
Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, "He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us"?
1 John 1:8-10
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.