Romans 7:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Philippians 3:12

Bible References

That in me

But the Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.

And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.

Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!

What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight. We all wither like a leaf; our sins carry us away like the wind.

For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"

And although you were dead in your transgressions and sins,

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.

In my

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

For to will

For I don't understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want -- instead, I do what I hate.

If only I were predisposed to keep your statutes!

For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to each other, so that you cannot do what you want.

for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort -- for the sake of his good pleasure -- is God.

Not that I have already attained this -- that is, I have not already been perfected -- but I strive to lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus also laid hold of me.