Romans 7:18

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was continually only evil.

Genesis 8:21

The Lord smelled a soothing aroma; and the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the inclination of man’s heart is evil from his youth, nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is no one.

Job 25:4

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

Psalm 119:173

Let Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen Your precepts.

Psalm 119:176

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek out Your servant, for I forget not Your commandments.

Psalm 119:32

I will run the way of Your commandments, for You shall enlarge my heart.

Psalm 119:40

Behold, I long for Your precepts; revive me in Your righteousness.

Psalm 119:5

Oh that my ways were directed to keep Your statutes!

Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

Isaiah 64:6

But we all are as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness is as filthy rags; and we all 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, sexual immorality, thefts, false witness, and blasphemies.

Luke 11:13

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will 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 its lusts.

Romans 7:15

For what I am doing, I do not understand, for I do not practice what I will to do, but I do the very thing I hate.

Romans 7:19

For the good I desire to do, I do not do, but the evil I do not want is what I do.

Romans 7:25

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

Romans 7:5

When we were in the flesh, the passions of sin, through the law, worked in our members to bear fruit leading to death.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. These are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please.

Galatians 5:24

Those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

Philippians 2:13

For God is the One working in you, both to will and to do His good pleasure.

Philippians 3:12

Not that I have already attained or have already been perfected, but I follow after it so that I may lay hold of that for which I was seized by Christ Jesus.

Titus 3:3

We also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in evil and envy, filled with hatred and hating each other.

1 Peter 4:2

so that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh serving human desires, but the will of God.