Romans 7:18

King James Version - American Edition

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

Cross References

Genesis 6:5

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 8:21

And the Lord smelled a sweet savor; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth: neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

Job 25:4

How then can man be justified with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

Psalm 119:173

Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

Psalm 119:176

I have gone astray like a lost sheep: seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

Psalm 119:32

I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

Psalm 119:40

Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

Psalm 119:5

O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Isaiah 64:6

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

Luke 11:13

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children; how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

John 3:6

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 13:14

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Romans 7:15

For that which I do, I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

Romans 7:19

For the good that I would, I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

Romans 7:25

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other; so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Galatians 5:24

And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

Philippians 2:13

for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Philippians 3:12

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves also were sometime foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

1 Peter 4:2

that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.