Romans 7:18

God's Word

I know that nothing good lives in me; that is, nothing good lives in my corrupt nature. Although I have the desire to do what is right, I don’t do it.

Cross References

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw how evil humans had become on the earth. All day long their deepest thoughts were nothing but evil.

Genesis 8:21

The Lord smelled the soothing aroma. He said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of humans, even though from birth their hearts are set on nothing but evil. I will never again kill every living creature as I have just done.

Job 14:4

“If only an unclean person could become clean! It’s not possible.

Job 25:4

How can a person be righteous to God? How can anyone born of a woman be pure?

Psalm 119:173

Let your hand help me because I have chosen ⌞to follow⌟ your guiding principles.

Psalm 119:176

I have wandered away like a lost lamb. Search for me, because I have never forgotten your commandments.

Psalm 119:32

I will eagerly pursue your commandments because you continue to increase my understanding.

Psalm 119:40

I long for your guiding principles. Give me a new life in your righteousness.

Psalm 119:5

I pray that my ways may become firmly established so that I can obey your laws.

Psalm 51:5

Indeed, I was born guilty. I was a sinner when my mother conceived me.

Isaiah 64:6

We’ve all become unclean, and all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags. All of us shrivel like leaves, and our sins carry us away like the wind.

Matthew 15:19

Evil thoughts, murder, adultery, ⌞other⌟ sexual sins, stealing, lying, and cursing come from within.

Luke 11:13

Even though you’re evil, you know how to give good gifts to your children. So how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

John 3:6

Flesh and blood give birth to flesh and blood, but the Spirit gives birth to things that are spiritual.

Romans 13:14

Instead, live like the Lord Jesus Christ did, and forget about satisfying the desires of your corrupt nature.

Romans 7:15

I don’t realize what I’m doing. I don’t do what I want to do. Instead, I do what I hate.

Romans 7:19

I don’t do the good I want to do. Instead, I do the evil that I don’t want to do.

Romans 7:25

I thank God that our Lord Jesus Christ rescues me! So I am obedient to God’s standards with my mind, but I am obedient to sin’s standards with my corrupt nature.

Romans 7:5

While we were living under the influence of our corrupt nature, sinful passions were at work throughout our bodies. Stirred up by the laws in Moses’ Teachings, our sinful passions did things that result in death.

Galatians 5:17

What your corrupt nature wants is contrary to what your spiritual nature wants, and what your spiritual nature wants is contrary to what your corrupt nature wants. They are opposed to each other. As a result, you don’t always do what you intend to do.

Galatians 5:24

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their corrupt nature along with its passions and desires.

Philippians 2:13

It is God who produces in you the desires and actions that please him.

Philippians 3:12

It’s not that I’ve already reached the goal or have already completed the course. But I run to win that which Jesus Christ has already won for me.

Titus 3:3

Indeed, we, too, were once stupid, disobedient, and misled. We were slaves to many kinds of lusts and pleasures. We were mean and jealous. We were hated, and we hated each other.

1 Peter 4:2

That way you won’t be guided by sinful human desires as you live the rest of your lives on earth. Instead, you will be guided by what God wants you to do.