Romans 7:17
Now then it is no longer I that do it, but the sin that dwells in me.
Romans 7:20
If I do what I do not want to do, this means that I am no longer the one who does it. Instead, it is the sin that lives in me.
Romans 4:7-8
saying: Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
Romans 7:18
I know that good does not live in my human nature. For even though the desire to do good is in me, I am not able to do it.
Romans 7:23
However I see a different law at work in my body. This law fights against the law that my mind approves of. It makes me a prisoner to the law of sin that is at work in my body.
2 Corinthians 8:12
For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a man has, not according to what he does not have.
Philippians 3:8-9
I count all things to be loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. I suffered the loss of all things. Yet I count them as refuse (garbage) (dung) that I may gain Christ.
James 4:5-6
Or do you think the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the attitude of the heart (mental disposition) that he induced to live in us cause us to envy?