15 Bible Verses about People's Inability To Serve God

Then Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD, for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not allow your rebellions nor your sins.

Thou knowest how David, my father, could not build a house unto the name of the LORD his God, for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put his enemies under the soles of his feet.

And the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.

because the prudence of the flesh is enmity against God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, neither indeed can it.

So then, those that are carnal cannot please God.

For that which was impossible to the law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh

Strive to enter in at the narrow gate; for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in and shall not be able.

For the Christ, when we were yet weak, in his time died for the ungodly.

If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, and even his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

And whosoever does not bear his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

No one can come to me unless the Father who has sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abides in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

I AM the vine, ye are the branches: he that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.

I know thy works; behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no one can shut it, for thou hast a little strength and hast kept my word and hast not denied my name.

And I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing; for I have the desire, but I am not able to perform that which is good.