Romans 7:21
So I find this law: When I want to do right, the wrong is always in my way.
Romans 7:23
but I see another power operating in my lower nature in conflict with the power operated by my reason, which makes me a prisoner to the power of sin which is operating in my lower nature.
Romans 8:2
For the life-giving power of the Spirit through union with Christ Jesus has set us free from the power of sin and death.
Luke 4:1
Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and for forty days He was led about in the desert under the Spirit's guidance,
John 8:34
Jesus answered them, "I most solemnly say to you, everyone who lives in sin is a slave of sin.
Romans 6:12
Accordingly, sin must not continue to reign over your mortal bodies, so as to make you continue to obey their evil desires,
Romans 6:14
For sin must not any longer exert its mastery over you, for now you are not living as slaves to law but as subjects to God's favor.
Romans 7:25
Thank God! It has been done through Jesus Christ our Lord! So in my higher nature I am a slave to the law of God, but in my lower nature, to the law of sin.
Ephesians 6:11-13
You must put on God's full armor, so as to be able to stand up against the devil's stratagems.
Hebrews 2:17
Therefore He had to be made like His brothers, so that He could be a sympathetic High Priest, as well as a faithful one, in things relating to God, in order to atone for the people's sins.
Hebrews 4:15
For we do not have a High Priest who is incapable of sympathizing with us in our weaknesses, but we have One who was tempted in every respect as we are, and yet without committing any sin.
2 Peter 2:19
promising them freedom, though they are slaves of destruction themselves; for a man is the slave of anything that conquers him.