12 Bible Verses about People's Inability To Serve God

For to be physically minded means hostility to God, for it refuses to obey God's law, indeed it cannot obey it.

Those who are physical cannot please God.

For though it was impossible for the Law to do it, hampered as it was by our physical limitations, God, by sending his own Son in our sinful physical form, as a sin-offering, put his condemnation upon sin through his physical nature,

"You must strain every nerve to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in, and will not succeed,

For when we were still helpless, at the decisive moment Christ died for us godless men.

"If anyone comes to me without hating his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and his very life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

For no one who does not take up his own cross and come after me can be a disciple of mine.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the Last Day.

You must remain united to me and I will remain united to you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains united to the vine, you cannot unless you remain united to me.

I am the vine, you are the branches. Anyone who remains united to me, with me united to him, will be very fruitful, for you cannot do anything apart from me.

I know what you are doing. See! I have put before you an open door that no one can close. I know that you have little strength, but you have obeyed my message and you have not disowned my name.

For I know that nothing good resides in me, that is, in my physical self; I can will, but I cannot do what is right.