Romans 7:18
For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but I cannot carry it out.
Romans 7:25
Thank God through Jesus the Messiah, our Lord, because with my mind I myself can serve the Law of God, even while with my human nature I serve the law of sin.
Genesis 6:5
The LORD saw that human evil was growing more and more throughout the earth, with every inclination of people's thoughts becoming only evil on a continuous basis.
Genesis 8:21
When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, he told himself, "I will never again curse the land because of human beings even though human inclinations remain evil from youth nor will I destroy every living being ever again, as I've done.
Job 14:4
Who can produce a clean thing from an unclean thing? No one!
Psalm 51:5
Indeed, in iniquity I was brought forth; in sin my mother conceived me.
John 3:6
What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Titus 3:3
After all, we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and misled. We were slaves to many kinds of lusts and pleasures, spending our days in malice and jealousy. We were despised, and we hated one another.
Job 15:14-16
"What is mankind, that he can be blameless? Or does being born of a woman mean he'll be in the right?
Psalm 119:115-117
Leave me, you who practice evil, that I may observe the commands of my God.
Matthew 15:19
It is out of the heart that evil thoughts come, as well as murder, adultery, sexual immorality, stealing, false testimony, and slander.
Mark 7:21-23
because it's from within, from the human heart, that evil thoughts come, as well as sexual immorality, stealing, murder,
Psalm 119:5
Oh, that my ways were steadfast, so I may keep your statutes.
Psalm 119:32
I eagerly race along the way of your commands, for you enable me to do so. He
Psalm 119:40
Look, I long for your precepts; revive me through your righteousness. Vav
Psalm 119:173
May your hand stand ready to assist me, for I have chosen your precepts.
Psalm 119:176
I have wandered away like a lost sheep; come find your servant, for I do not forget your commands. A Song of Ascents
Luke 11:13
So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who keep asking him!"
Romans 7:5
For while we were living according to our human nature, sinful passions were at work in our bodies by means of the Law, to bear fruit resulting in death.
Romans 7:15
I don't understand what I am doing. For I don't practice what I want to do, but instead do what I hate.
Romans 7:19
For I don't do the good I want to do, but instead do the evil that I don't want to do.
Romans 8:3-13
For what the Law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did. By sending his own Son in the form of humanity, he condemned sin by being incarnate,
Romans 13:14
Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, and do not obey your flesh and its desires.
Galatians 5:17
For what the flesh wants is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit wants is opposed to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, and so you do not do what you want to do.
Galatians 5:19-21
Now the actions of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, promiscuity,
Galatians 5:24
Now those who belong to the Messiah Jesus have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires.
Ephesians 2:1-5
You used to be dead because of your offenses and sins
Philippians 2:13
For it is God who is producing in you both the desire and the ability to do what pleases him.
Philippians 3:12
It's not that I have already reached this goal or have already become perfect. But I keep pursuing it, hoping somehow to embrace it just as I have been embraced by the Messiah Jesus.
1 Peter 4:2
so that he can live the rest of his mortal life guided, not by human desires, but by the will of God.
Job 25:4
How can a human being become right with God? How can a human being be pure?
Isaiah 64:6
All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a filthy rag; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind, our iniquities sweep us away.