Romans 7:17
But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.
Romans 7:20
Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.
Romans 4:7-8
"Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;
Romans 7:18
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.
Romans 7:23
But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.
2 Corinthians 8:12
For if the eagerness is present, the gift itself is acceptable according to whatever one has, not according to what he does not have.
Philippians 3:8-9
More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things -- indeed, I regard them as dung! -- that I may gain Christ,
James 4:5-6
Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, "The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning"?