12 Bible Verses about People's Inability To Serve God

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so;

and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weakened through the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin: he condemned sin in the flesh,

"Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

When we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

"If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

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

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

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.

I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from me you can do nothing.

I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word, and have not denied my name.

For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will to do what is good, but I cannot do it.