Romans 7:18

Internal Conflict With Sin

¹⁷ But now I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that lives in me. ¹⁸ For I know that good does not live in me, that is, in my flesh. For the willing is present in me, but the doing [of] the good [is] not. ¹⁹ For the good that I want [to do], I do not do, but the evil that I do not want [to do], this I do.

Do Good

In Me

My Flesh

What is Good

That Which Is Good

No

Romans 7:25

Thanks [be] to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself with my mind am enslaved to the law of God, but with my flesh [I am enslaved] to the law of sin.

Genesis 6:5

And Yahweh saw that the evil of humankind [was] great upon the earth, and every inclination of the thoughts of his heart [was] always only evil.

Genesis 8:21

And Yahweh smelled the soothing fragrance, and Yahweh said {to himself}, "{Never again will I curse} the ground for the sake of humankind, because the inclination of the heart of humankind [is] evil from his youth. {Nor will I ever again destroy} all life as I have done.

Job 14:4

"Who can bring a clean [thing] from an unclean [thing]? No one!

Psalm 51:5

Behold, in iniquity I was born, and in sin my mother conceived me.

John 3:6

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

Titus 3:3

For we also were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in wickedness and envy, despicable, hating one another.

Job 15:14-16

"What [is] a human being, that he can be clean, or that [one] born of a woman can be righteous?

Psalm 119:115-117

Turn aside from me, [you] evildoers, for I will keep the commands of my God.

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart come evil plans, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, abusive speech.

Mark 7:21-23

For from within, from the heart of people, come evil plans, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,

Psalm 119:5

Oh that my ways were steadfast, to keep your statutes!

Psalm 119:32

I will run the way of your commands, for you will enlarge my heart.

Psalm 119:40

Look, I have longed for your precepts; revive me in your righteousness.

Psalm 119:173

Let your hand be my help, because I have chosen your precepts.

Psalm 119:176

I have wandered like a lost sheep; seek your servant, because I do not forget your commands.

Luke 11:13

Therefore if you, [although you] are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, sinful desires were working through the law in our members, to bear fruit for death.

Romans 7:15

For what I am doing I do not understand, because what I want [to do], this I do not practice, but what I hate, this I do.

Romans 7:19

For the good that I want [to do], I do not do, but the evil that I do not want [to do], this I do.

Romans 8:3-13

For what [was] impossible for the law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God [did]. [By] sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

Romans 13:14

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, for these are in opposition to one another, so that whatever you want, you may not do these [things].

Galatians 5:19-21

Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness,

Galatians 5:24

Now those {who belong to Christ} have crucified the flesh together with its feelings and its desires.

Ephesians 2:1-5

And you, {although you were dead} in your trespasses and sins,

Philippians 2:13

For the one at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure, is God.

Philippians 3:12

Not that I have already received [this], or [have] already been made perfect, but I press on if indeed I may lay hold of [that] for which also I was laid hold of by Christ.

1 Peter 4:2

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for the will of God.

Job 25:4

"Indeed, how can a human being be righteous before God? And how will he who is born of a woman be pure?

Isaiah 64:6

And we all have become like the unclean, and all our deeds of justice like a menstrual cloth, And we all wither like leaf, and our iniquities take us away like the wind.