Romans 7:18

James Moffatt - New Testament

For in me (that is, in my flesh) no good dwells, I know; the wish is there, but not the power of doing what is right.

Cross References

John 3:6

What is born of the flesh is flesh: what is born of the Spirit is Spirit.

Galatians 5:17

For the passion of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the passion of the Spirit against the flesh — the two are at issue, so that you are not free to do as you please.

Romans 7:25

God will! Thanks be to him through Jesus Christ our Lord! [Move second part of this vers to follow vs 23] (Thus, left to myself, I serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.)

Galatians 5:24

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

Philippians 2:13

for it is God who in his goodwill enables you to will this and to achieve it.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

Romans 7:19

I cannot be good as I want to be, and I do wrong against my wishes.

Romans 7:15

I cannot understand my own actions; I do not act as I want to act; on the contrary, I do what I detest.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil designs, murder, adultery, sexual vice, stealing, false witness, and slander.

1 Peter 4:2

nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions.

Philippians 3:12

Not that I have already attained this or am already perfect, but I press forward to appropriate it, because I have been appropriated myself by Christ Jesus.

Luke 11:13

Well, if for all your evil you know to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father give the holy Spirit from heaven to those who ask him?"

Romans 13:14

No, put on the character of the Lord Jesus Christ, and never think how to gratify the cravings of the flesh.

Romans 7:5

For when we were unspiritual, the sinful cravings excited by the Law were active in our members and made us fruitful to Death;