Romans 7:18

Lighthouse Bible 2006

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

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 smell; 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 strike 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 your hand help me; for I have chosen your precepts.

Psalm 119:176

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

Psalm 119:32

I will run the way of your commandments, when you shall enlarge my heart.

Psalm 119:40

Behold, I have longed for your precepts: revive me in your righteousness.

Psalm 119:5

O that my ways were directed to keep your statutes!

Psalm 51:5

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

Isaiah 64:6

But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; and we all fade like 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 you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who 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 on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.

Romans 7:15

For that which I do I do not approve of: for what I would like to do, that I do not do; but what I hate, that I do.

Romans 7:19

For the good that I desire I do not do: but the evil which I do not desire, 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 emotions of sins, which were aroused by the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit leading to death.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary to one another: so that you cannot do the things that you would.

Galatians 5:24

And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

Philippians 2:13

For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Philippians 3:12

Not as though I had already attained, or were already perfect: but I pursue it, if I may take hold of that for which also I am taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves also were at one time foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various 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 for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.