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.
For to will
Bible References
That in me
Matthew 15:19
For from the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies:
Mark 7:21
for from within, from the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, fornications,
Luke 11:13
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall the Father from heaven give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him.
Ephesians 2:1
And you being dead in trespasses and sins,??2 in which you formerly walked according to the life of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit which now operates in the children of disobedience,
Titus 3:3
For we formerly were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, detestable, and hating one another;
1 Peter 4:2
that you may no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh according to the desires of men, but according to the will of God.
In my
Romans 7:5
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful affections operated through the law in our members to bear fruit to death;
Romans 8:3
For what the law could not do because it was weak through the flesh, God having sent his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned the sin in the flesh,
Romans 13:14
but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for desires of the flesh.
John 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is a spirit.
Galatians 5:19
For the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, impurity, lewdness,
For to will
Romans 7:15
For what I do this I approve not; for I do not what I wish, but what I hate, this I do.
Galatians 5:17
For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are opposed one to another, so that you do not what you wish.
Philippians 2:13
for God works in you both to will and to work of his good pleasure.
Philippians 3:12
Not that I have already obtained it, or have been already made perfect; but I follow on that I may attain that for which also I was arrested by Christ.