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.
Galatians 5:17
For the cravings of the lower nature are just the opposite to those of the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are just the opposite of those of the lower nature; these two are opposed to each other, so that you cannot do anything you please.
James 4:1
What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder.
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.
1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beg you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the evil desires of your lower nature, because they are always at war with the soul.
Romans 6:19
I am speaking in familiar human terms because of the frailty of your nature. For just as you formerly offered the parts of your bodies in slavery to impurity and to ever increasing lawlessness, so now you must once for all offer them in slavery to right-doing, which leads to consecration.
Romans 7:21
So I find this law: When I want to do right, the wrong is always in my way.
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.
Romans 6:13
and you must stop offering to sin the parts of your bodies as instruments for wrongdoing, but you must once for all offer yourselves to God as persons raised from the dead to live on perpetually, and once for all offer the parts of your bodies to God as instruments for right-doing.
Romans 7:5
For when we were living in accordance with our lower nature, the sinful passions that were aroused by the law were operating in the parts of our bodies to make us bear fruit that leads to death.
Romans 7:14
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am made of flesh that is frail, sold into slavery to sin.
1 Timothy 6:11-12
But you, as a man of God, must be fleeing always from these things; you must constantly strive for uprightness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.
2 Timothy 2:25-26
With gentleness he must correct his opponents, for God might grant them repentance that would lead them to a full knowledge of the truth,
Hebrews 12:4
You have not yet, as you have struggled on against sin, resisted to the point of pouring out your blood,
James 3:2
For we all make many a slip. If anyone never slips in speech, he is a man of maturity; he can control his whole body too.