Romans 7:18

New American Bible - revised edition

For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh. The willing is ready at hand, but doing the good is not.

Cross References

Genesis 6:5

When the Lord saw how great the wickedness of human beings was on earth, and how every desire that their heart conceived was always nothing but evil,

Genesis 8:21

When the Lord smelled the sweet odor, the Lord said to himself: Never again will I curse the ground because of human beings, since the desires of the human heart are evil from youth; nor will I ever again strike down every living being, as I have done.

Job 14:4

Can anyone make the unclean clean? No one can.

Job 25:4

How can anyone be in the right against God, or how can any born of woman be innocent?

Psalm 119:173

Keep your hand ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

Psalm 119:176

I have wandered like a lost sheep; seek out your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.

Psalm 119:32

I will run the way of your commandments, for you will broaden my heart.

Psalm 119:40

See how I long for your precepts; in your righteousness give me life.

Psalm 119:5

May my ways be firm in the observance of your statutes!

Psalm 51:5

For I know my transgressions; my sin is always before me.

Isaiah 64:6

There are none who call upon your name, none who rouse themselves to take hold of you; For you have hidden your face from us and have delivered us up to our crimes.

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, false witness, blasphemy.

Luke 11:13

If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the holy Spirit to those who ask him?” Jesus and Beelzebul.

John 3:6

What is born of flesh is flesh and what is born of spirit is spirit.

Romans 13:14

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.

Romans 7:15

What I do, I do not understand. For I do not do what I want, but I do what I hate.

Romans 7:19

For I do not do the good I want, but I do the evil I do not want.

Romans 7:25

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I myself, with my mind, serve the law of God but, with my flesh, the law of sin.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, our sinful passions, awakened by the law, worked in our members to bear fruit for death.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do what you want.

Galatians 5:24

Now those who belong to Christ [Jesus] have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires.

Philippians 2:13

For God is the one who, for his good purpose, works in you both to desire and to work.

Philippians 3:12

It is not that I have already taken hold of it or have already attained perfect maturity, but I continue my pursuit in hope that I may possess it, since I have indeed been taken possession of by Christ [Jesus].

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deluded, slaves to various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another.

1 Peter 4:2

so as not to spend what remains of one’s life in the flesh on human desires, but on the will of God.