Romans 7:18
For I know that in me, that is, in my lower self, nothing good has its home; for while the will to do right is present with me, the power to carry it out is not.
Romans 7:25
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!)
John 3:6
Whatever has been born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever has been born of the Spirit is spirit.
Titus 3:3
For there was a time when we also were deficient in understanding, obstinate, deluded, the slaves of various cravings and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart proceed wicked thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, perjury, impiety of speech.
Mark 7:21-23
For from within, out of men's hearts, their evil purposes proceed--fornication, theft, murder, adultery,
Luke 11:13
If you then, with all your human frailty, know how to give your children gifts that are good for them, how much more certainly will your Father who is in Heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!"
Romans 7:5
For whilst we were under the thraldom of our earthly natures, sinful passions-- made sinful by the Law--were always being aroused to action in our bodily faculties that they might yield fruit to death.
Romans 7:15
For what I do, I do not recognize as my own action. What I desire to do is not what I do, but what I am averse to is what I do.
Romans 7:19
For what I do is not the good thing that I desire to do; but the evil thing that I desire not to do, is what I constantly do.
Romans 8:3-13
For what was impossible to the Law--powerless as it was because it acted through frail humanity--God effected. Sending His own Son in a body like that of sinful human nature and as a sacrifice for sin, He pronounced sentence upon sin in human nature;
Romans 13:14
On the contrary, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for gratifying your earthly cravings.
Galatians 5:17
For the cravings of the lower nature are opposed to those of the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are opposed to those of the lower nature; because these are antagonistic to each other, so that you cannot do everything to which you are inclined.
Galatians 5:19-21
Now you know full well the doings of our lower natures. Fornication, impurity, indecency, idol-worship, sorcery;
Galatians 5:24
Against such things as these there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their lower nature with its passions and appetites.
Ephesians 2:1-5
To you Gentiles also, who were dead through your offences and sins,
Philippians 2:13
For it is God Himself whose power creates within you the desire to do His gracious will and also brings about the accomplishment of the desire.
Philippians 3:12
I do not say that I have already won the race or have already reached perfection. But I am pressing on, striving to lay hold of the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me.
1 Peter 4:2
that in future you may spend the rest of your earthly lives, governed not by human passions, but by the will of God.