15 Bible Verses about People's Inability To Serve God

And Joshua said to the people, Ye cannot serve LORD, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your transgression nor your sins.

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

so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud, for the glory of LORD filled the house of LORD.

Because the mentality of the flesh is enmity against God, for it is not submissive to the law of God, for neither is it able.

And those who are in flesh cannot please God.

For the impotence of the law, in that it was weak because of the flesh, God, having sent his own Son in a form of flesh of sin, and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh,

Compete to enter in by the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

For while we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the impious.

If any man comes to me, and does not regard as inferior his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and besides his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

And whoever does not bear his cross, and come behind me, cannot be my disciple.

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

Dwell in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it dwells in the grapevine, so neither ye, if ye do not dwell in me.

I am the grapevine, ye are the branches. He who dwells in me, and I in him, this man bears much fruit, because without me ye can do nothing.

I know thy works. Behold, I have given before thee an opened door that none is able to shut it, because thou have little power, and thou keep my word, and did not deny my name.

For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, for to will is present in me, but to do the good, I find not.