Romans 7:18

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Yes, I know that nothing good lives in me—I mean nothing good lives in the part of me that is not spiritual. I want to do what is good, but I don’t do it.

Cross References

John 3:6

The only life people get from their human parents is physical. But the new life that the Spirit gives a person is spiritual.

Psalm 51:5

I was born to do wrong, a sinner before I left my mother’s womb.

Galatians 5:17

The sinful self wants what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit wants what is against the sinful self. They are always fighting against each other, so that you don’t do what you really want to do.

Romans 7:25

I thank God for his salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord! So in my mind I am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful self I am a slave to the law of sin.

Job 14:4

“No one can make something clean from something so dirty.

Galatians 5:24

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their sinful self. They have given up their old selfish feelings and the evil things they wanted to do.

Philippians 2:13

Yes, it is God who is working in you. He helps you want to do what pleases him, and he gives you the power to do it.

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw that the people on the earth were very evil. He saw that they thought only about evil things all the time.

Titus 3:3

In the past we were foolish too. We did not obey, we were wrong, and we were slaves to the many things our bodies wanted and enjoyed. We lived doing evil and being jealous. People hated us and we hated each other.

Romans 7:19

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

Romans 7:15

I don’t understand why I act the way I do. I don’t do the good I want to do, and I do the evil I hate.

Matthew 15:19

All these bad things begin in the mind: evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual sins, stealing, lying, and insulting people.

Genesis 8:21

The Lord smelled these sacrifices, and it pleased him. The Lord said to himself, “I will never again curse the earth as a way to punish people. People are evil from the time they are young, but I will never again destroy every living thing on the earth as I did this time.

1 Peter 4:2

Strengthen yourselves so that you will live your lives here on earth doing what God wants, not the evil things that people want to do.

Philippians 3:12

I don’t mean that I am exactly what God wants me to be. I have not yet reached that goal. But I continue trying to reach it and make it mine. That’s what Christ Jesus wants me to do. It is the reason he made me his.

Luke 11:13

Even you who are bad know how to give good things to your children. So surely your heavenly Father knows how to give the Holy Spirit to the people who ask him.”

Psalm 119:176

I have wandered away like a lost sheep. Come and find me. I am your servant, and I have not forgotten your commands.

Psalm 119:40

See how much I want to obey your instructions! Be good to me, and let me live.

Job 25:4

How can anyone claim to be right before God? No human being can really be pure.

Romans 13:14

But be like the Lord Jesus Christ, so that when people see what you do, they will see Christ. Don’t think about how to satisfy the desires of your sinful self.

Romans 7:5

In the past we were ruled by our sinful selves. The law made us want to do sinful things. And those sinful desires controlled our bodies, so that what we did only brought us spiritual death.

Psalm 119:173

I have chosen to follow your instructions, so reach out and help me!

Isaiah 64:6

We are all dirty with sin. Even our good works are not pure. They are like bloodstained rags. We are all like dead leaves. Our sins have carried us away like wind.

Psalm 119:5

How I wish I could be more faithful in obeying your laws!

Psalm 119:32

I do my best to follow your commands, because you are the one who gives me the desire.