12 Bible Verses about People's Inability To Serve God

For to be earthly minded is enmity against God; For such a mind is not subject to the Law of God, Nor can it be;

And they who are earthly minded cannot please God.

For God has done what the Law could not do, weakened as it was by flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and on account of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

"Struggle to enter in by the narrow door," he answered, "for I tell you that many will try to enter and not be able,

For while we were still without strength, Christ died in due time for the ungodly.

"If any one comes to me and does not hate father and his mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters, yes, and his own very life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

"Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me, cannot be a disciple of mine.

answered Jesus; "no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him; then I will raise him up on the last day.

"Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me.

"I am the Vine you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing.

I know your works. Lo, I have set before you an open door, which none can shut; for though you have only a little strength, you have kept my word, and have not denied my name.

For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, no good thing has its home; for while to will is present with me, to carry out that which is right is not.