15 Bible Verses about People's Inability To Serve God
Most Relevant Verses
And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins.
You have knowledge that David my father was not able to make a house for the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars which were round him on every side, till the Lord put all those who were against him under his feet.
So that the priests were not able to keep their places to do their work because of the cloud, for the house of the Lord was full of the glory of the Lord.
Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:
For what the law was not able to do because it was feeble through the flesh, God, sending his Son in the image of the evil flesh, and as an offering for sin, gave his decision against sin in the flesh:
Do your best to go in by the narrow door, for I say to you, A number will make the attempt to go in, but will not be able to do so.
For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers.
And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.
No man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day.
Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me.
I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing.
I have knowledge of your works (see, I have put before you an open door which may be shut by no one), and that you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have been true to my name.
For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.
