12 Bible Verses about People's Inability To Serve God

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it doth not submit itself to the Law of God, neither indeed can it.

And they who are in the flesh cannot please God.

For what the Law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God hath done, who on account of sin sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and passed sentence of condemnation on sin in the flesh;

Strive to enter in through the narrow door; for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

For while we were yet without strength, in due season Christ died for the ungodly.

If any one cometh to me, and hateth not his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Whoever doth not bear his own cross and follow me, cannot be my disciple.

No one can come to me, unless the Father, who sent me, draw him: and I will raise him up in the last day.

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, if it abide not in the vine, so neither can ye, unless ye abide in me.

I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit; for apart from me ye can do nothing.

I know thy works; behold, I have set before thee an open door, which no one can shut; for thou hast little power, and yet hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is, in my flesh, any good thing; for to desire is present with me, but not to perform that which is good.