Romans 7:18

Bible in Basic English 1965

For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.

Cross References

Genesis 6:5

And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.

Genesis 8:21

And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.

Job 14:4

If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

Job 25:4

How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

Psalm 119:173

Let your hand be near for my help; for I have given my heart to your orders.

Psalm 119:176

I have gone out of the way like a wandering sheep; make search for your servant; for I keep your teachings ever in mind.

Psalm 119:32

I will go quickly in the way of your teaching, because you have given me a free heart.

Psalm 119:40

See how great is my desire for your orders: give me life in your righteousness.

Psalm 119:5

If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules!

Psalm 51:5

Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

Isaiah 64:6

For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:

Luke 11:13

If, then, you who are evil are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who make request to him?

John 3:6

That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 13:14

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.

Romans 7:15

And I have no clear knowledge of what I am doing, for that which I have a mind to do, I do not, but what I have hate for, that I do.

Romans 7:19

For the good which I have a mind to do, I do not: but the evil which I have no mind to do, that I do.

Romans 7:25

I give praise to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with my mind I am a servant to the law of God, but with my flesh to the law of sin.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.

Galatians 5:24

And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.

Philippians 2:13

For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.

Philippians 3:12

Not as if I had even now got the reward or been made complete: but I go on in the hope that I may come to the knowledge of that for which I was made the servant of Christ Jesus.

Titus 3:3

For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

1 Peter 4:2

So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.