12 Bible Verses about People's Inability To Serve God

Because the minding of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God; for it can not be.

And they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

For what the law could not do because it was weak through the flesh, God having sent his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned the sin in the flesh,

Strive to enter in by the narrow gate; for many, I tell you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

For when we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the wicked;

If any one comes to me, and hates not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and still more his own life also, 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 shall draw him; and I will raise him up at the last day.

continue in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it continues in the vine, so you cannot, unless you continue in me.

I am the vine, you are the branches. He that continues in me and I in him, this man bears much fruit; for separated from me, you can do nothing.

I know your works; behold, I have placed before you an opened door, which no man can shut; because you have a little power, and kept my word, and did not deny my name.

For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, there dwells no good. For to wish is present with me, but to do the good is not;