12 Bible Verses about People's Inability To Serve God

because a sensual disposition of mind is averse to God: for it is not subject to the divine law, nor indeed can it be.

so that they who are in a carnal state, cannot be acceptable to the divine being. as for you,

God having sent his own son invested with a body like that of sinful men, as a sacrifice for sin, thereby destroyed its power; which the law could not effect, human nature being in such a corrupted state.

strive to enter in at the narrow gate: for I declare unto you, that many shall try to get in, and shall not be able.

for at the appointed time Christ died for us, when we were in a helpless, sinful state.

and said, he that can't abandon his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, nay, even his own life, cannot be my disciple.

and he that does not bear his cross, and tread in my steps, cannot be my disciple.

no man can come to me, except the father who hath sent me, conduct him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

be attach'd to me, and I shall be so to you. as the branch cannot bear fruit of it self, except it be attach'd to the vine: so neither can you, except you continue attach'd to me.

I am the vine, you are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for independent of me ye can do nothing.

I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for tho' few in number, you have kept my word, and have not renounced my name.

for I experience, that in the carnal part of me dwells no good: for it is familiar to me, to will, but not to execute that which is good.