Romans 7:18

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Romans 7:18

For I know that nothing good has its home in me; that is, in my lower self; I have the will but not the power to do what is right.

Romans 7:25

Thank God! It has been done through Jesus Christ our Lord! So in my higher nature I am a slave to the law of God, but in my lower nature, to the law of sin.

John 3:6

Whatever is born of the physical is physical, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spiritual.

Titus 3:3

For once we too were without understanding, disobedient, misled, habitual slaves to all sorts of passions and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, immorality, stealing, false witnessing, irreverent speech.

Mark 7:21-23

for from the inside, that is, from the hearts of men, designs for doing evil come, sexual immorality, stealing, murder,

Luke 11:13

So if you, in spite of your being bad, know how to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who continue to ask Him?"

Romans 7:5

For when we were living in accordance with our lower nature, the sinful passions that were aroused by the law were operating in the parts of our bodies to make us bear fruit that leads to death.

Romans 7:15

Indeed, I do not understand what I do, for I do not practice what I want to do, but I am always doing what I hate.

Romans 7:19

Indeed, I do not do the good things that I want to do, but I do practice the evil things that I do not want to do.

For though the law could not do it, because it was made helpless through our lower nature, yet God, by sending His own Son in a body similar to that of our lower nature, and as a sacrifice for sin, passed sentence upon sin through His body,

Romans 13:14

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and put a stop to gratifying the evil desires that lurk in your lower nature.

Galatians 5:17

For the cravings of the lower nature are just the opposite to those of the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are just the opposite of those of the lower nature; these two are opposed to each other, so that you cannot do anything you please.

Galatians 5:19-21

Now the practices of the lower nature are clear enough: Sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

Galatians 5:24

And those who belong to Jesus the Christ have crucified the lower nature with its passions and evil cravings.

Ephesians 2:1-5

You too were dead because of the shortcomings and sins

Philippians 2:13

for it is God Himself who is at work in you to help you desire it as well as do it.

Philippians 3:12

It is not a fact that I have already secured it or already reached perfection, but I am pressing on to see if I can capture it, the ideal for which I was captured by Christ Jesus.

1 Peter 4:2

so that he no longer can spend the rest of his earthly life in harmony with human desires but in accordance with God's will.

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Summary

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 come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, immorality, stealing, false witnessing, irreverent speech.

for from the inside, that is, from the hearts of men, designs for doing evil come, sexual immorality, stealing, murder,

So if you, in spite of your being bad, know how to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who continue to ask Him?"

You too were dead because of the shortcomings and sins

For once we too were without understanding, disobedient, misled, habitual slaves to all sorts of passions and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy.

so that he no longer can spend the rest of his earthly life in harmony with human desires but in accordance with God's will.

In my

For when we were living in accordance with our lower nature, the sinful passions that were aroused by the law were operating in the parts of our bodies to make us bear fruit that leads to death.

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and put a stop to gratifying the evil desires that lurk in your lower nature.

Whatever is born of the physical is physical, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spiritual.

Now the practices of the lower nature are clear enough: Sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

For to will

Indeed, I do not understand what I do, for I do not practice what I want to do, but I am always doing what I hate.

for it is God Himself who is at work in you to help you desire it as well as do it.

It is not a fact that I have already secured it or already reached perfection, but I am pressing on to see if I can capture it, the ideal for which I was captured by Christ Jesus.