Romans 7:18

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh.  For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.

Cross References

John 3:6

Whatever is born of the flesh   is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit   is spirit.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh desires  what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want.

Romans 7:25

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!  So then, with my mind I myself am serving the law of God, but with my flesh, the law of sin.

Job 14:4

Who can produce something pure from what is impure? No one!

Galatians 5:24

Now those who belong to Christ Jesus  have crucified the flesh  with its passions and desires.

Philippians 2:13

For it is God who is working in you both to will and to work according to his good purpose.

Genesis 6:5

When the Lord saw that human wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every inclination of the human mind was nothing but evil all the time,

Titus 3:3

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions  and pleasures,  living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

Romans 7:19

For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practise the evil that I do not want to do.

Romans 7:15

For I do not understand what I am doing,  because I do not practise what I want to do,  but I do what I hate.

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies,   slander.

Genesis 8:21

When the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma,  he said to himself, ‘I will never again curse the ground  because of human beings, even though the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth onward.  And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.

1 Peter 4:2

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.

Philippians 3:12

Not that I have already reached the goal or am already perfect, but I make every effort to take hold  of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Luke 11:13

If you then, who are evil,   know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father   give the Holy Spirit   to those who ask him? ’

Job 25:4

How can a human be justified before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Romans 13:14

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ,  and make no provision for the flesh to gratify its desires.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh,  the sinful passions aroused through the law were working in us  , to bear fruit for death.

Isaiah 64:6

All of us have become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a polluted   garment; all of us wither like a leaf, and our iniquities  carry us away like the wind.