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 7:25
Thanks to God, through our Lord Jesus Christ! So then I can serve God's law only with my mind, while my human nature serves the law of sin.
Genesis 6:5
Jehovah saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become. Every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.
Genesis 8:21
Jehovah smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: Never again will I curse the ground because of man, for the intent of his heart is evil from childhood. I will never again destroy every living creature, as I have done.
Job 14:4
Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!
Psalm 51:5
Indeed, I was born in perversity (mischief) (evil). I was a sinner when my mother conceived me.
John 3:6
That which is born from the flesh is flesh and that which is born from the Spirit is spirit.
Titus 3:3
For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
Job 15:14-16
What is man, that he could be pure? Or he who is born of woman, that he could be righteous?
Psalm 119:115-117
Depart from me, evildoers, that I may observe the commandments of my God.
Matthew 15:19
Evil thoughts come from the heart! Thoughts about murder, adultery, fornication, theft, lying, and slander come from the heart!
Mark 7:21-23
It is from the heart that evil thoughts come such as: fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
Psalm 119:5
Oh that my ways may be established to keep your statutes!
Psalm 119:32
I shall run the way of your commandments, for you will enlarge my heart (increase my understanding) (set me free from sin).
Psalm 119:40
Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me through your righteousness.
Psalm 119:173
Let Your hand be ready to help me. For I have chosen your precepts.
Psalm 119:176
I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Look for your servant for I have not forgotten your commandments.
Luke 11:13
If you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?
Romans 7:5
When we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
Romans 7:15
I do not understand what I am doing. For what I want to do I do not do. What I hate, I do.
Romans 7:19
I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do.
Romans 8:3-13
God did what the Law could not do, because human nature was weak. He sent his own son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering and do away with sin. So he condemned sin in sinful human nature.
Romans 13:14
Put on (live like) (clothe yourself with) the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.
Galatians 5:17
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. These are in opposition to one another that you may not do the things that you would.
Galatians 5:19-21
Now the works of the flesh (sinful human nature) are apparent. They are: fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct,
Galatians 5:24
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have impaled the flesh with its passions and lusts.
Ephesians 2:1-5
You were once dead because of your trespasses and sins.
Philippians 2:13
It is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
Philippians 3:12
Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect. But I press on, that I may obtain that for which Christ Jesus also obtained.
1 Peter 4:2
From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires (lusts).
Job 25:4
How then can a man be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
Isaiah 64:6
All of us have become unclean, and all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags. All of us wither like leaves, and our sins carry us away like the wind.