Romans 7:18

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Romans 7:18

I know that there is nothing good in me-I mean in my earthly nature. For, although it is easy for me to want to do right, to act rightly is not easy.

Romans 7:25

Thank God, there is deliverance through Jesus Christ, our Lord! Well then, for myself, with my reason I serve the Law of God, but with my earthly nature the Law of Sin.

John 3:6

All that owes its birth to human nature is human, and all that owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual.

There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts--murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, perjury, slander.

Mark 7:21-23

For it is from within, out of the hearts of men, that there come evil thoughts--unchastity, theft, murder, adultery,

Luke 11:13

If you, then, naturally wicked though you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in Heaven give the Holy Spirit to those that ask him!"

Romans 7:5

When we were living merely earthly lives, our sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were active in every part of our bodies, with the result that our lives bore fruit for Death.

Romans 7:15

I do not understand my own actions. For I am so far from habitually doing what I want to do, that I find myself doing the very thing that I hate.

Romans 7:19

I fail to do the good thing that I want to do, but the bad thing that I want not to do-that I habitually do.

Romans 8:3-13

What Law could not do, in so far as our earthly nature weakened its action, God did, by sending his own Son, with a nature resembling our sinful nature, to atone for sin. He condemned sin in that earthly nature,

Romans 13:14

No! Arm yourselves with the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, and spend no thought on your earthly nature, to satisfy its cravings.

Galatians 5:17

For these cravings of our earthly nature conflict with the Spirit, and the Spirit with our earthly nature--they are two contrary principles--so that you cannot do what you wish.

Galatians 5:19-21

The sins of our earthly nature are unmistakable. They are sins like these--unchastity, impurity, indecency,

Galatians 5:24

And those who belong to Jesus, the Christ, have already crucified their earthly nature, with its passions and its cravings.

Ephesians 2:1-5

You yourselves were once dead because of your offenses and sins.

Philippians 2:13

Remember it is God who, in his kindness, is at work within you, enabling you both to will and to work.

Philippians 3:12

Not that I have already laid hold of it, or that I am already made perfect. But I press on, in the hope of actually laying hold of that for which indeed I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

1 Peter 4:2

and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.

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Romans 7:18

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

That in me

In my

Galatians 5:19

For to will

Bible References

That in me

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts--murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, perjury, slander.

For it is from within, out of the hearts of men, that there come evil thoughts--unchastity, theft, murder, adultery,

If you, then, naturally wicked though you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in Heaven give the Holy Spirit to those that ask him!"

You yourselves were once dead because of your offenses and sins.

and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.

In my

When we were living merely earthly lives, our sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were active in every part of our bodies, with the result that our lives bore fruit for Death.

No! Arm yourselves with the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, and spend no thought on your earthly nature, to satisfy its cravings.

All that owes its birth to human nature is human, and all that owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual.

The sins of our earthly nature are unmistakable. They are sins like these--unchastity, impurity, indecency,

For to will

I do not understand my own actions. For I am so far from habitually doing what I want to do, that I find myself doing the very thing that I hate.

For these cravings of our earthly nature conflict with the Spirit, and the Spirit with our earthly nature--they are two contrary principles--so that you cannot do what you wish.

Remember it is God who, in his kindness, is at work within you, enabling you both to will and to work.

Not that I have already laid hold of it, or that I am already made perfect. But I press on, in the hope of actually laying hold of that for which indeed I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.