Romans 7:18

Internal Conflict With Sin

¹⁷ But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me. ¹⁸ For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it. ¹⁹ For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!

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 serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

Genesis 6:5

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.

Genesis 8:21

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.

Job 14:4

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

Psalm 51:5

Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment 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 too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

Job 15:14-16

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

Psalm 119:115-117

Turn away from me, you evil men, so that I can observe the commands of my God.

Matthew 15:19

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

Mark 7:21-23

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

Psalm 119:5

If only I were predisposed to keep your statutes!

Psalm 119:32

I run along the path of your commands, for you enable me to do so.

Psalm 119:40

Look, I long for your precepts. Revive me with your deliverance!

Psalm 119:173

May your hand help me, for I choose to obey your precepts.

Psalm 119:176

I have wandered off like a lost sheep. Come looking for your servant, for I do not forget your commands.

Luke 11:13

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!"

Romans 7:5

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.

Romans 7:15

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

Romans 7:19

For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!

Romans 8:3-13

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,

Romans 13:14

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

Galatians 5:17

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.

Galatians 5:19-21

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

Galatians 5:24

Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Ephesians 2:1-5

And although you were dead in your transgressions and sins,

Philippians 2:13

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

Philippians 3:12

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.

1 Peter 4:2

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

Job 25:4

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

Isaiah 64:6

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.