Romans 7:18

New Century Version

Yes, I know that nothing good lives in me—I mean nothing good lives in the part of me that is earthly and sinful. I want to do the things that are good, but I do not do them.

Cross References

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw that the human beings on the earth were very wicked and that everything they thought about was evil.

Genesis 8:21

The Lord was pleased with these sacrifices and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of human beings. Their thoughts are evil even when they are young, but I will never again destroy every living thing on the earth as I did this time.

Job 14:4

No one can bring something clean from something dirty.

Job 25:4

So no one can be good in the presence of God, and no one born to a woman can be pure.

Psalm 119:173

Give me your helping hand, because I have chosen your commands.

Psalm 119:176

I have wandered like a lost sheep. Look for your servant, because I have not forgotten your commands.

Psalm 119:32

I will quickly obey your commands, because you have made me happy.

Psalm 119:40

How I want to follow your orders. Give me life because of your goodness.

Psalm 119:5

I wish I were more loyal in obeying your demands.

Psalm 51:5

I was brought into this world in sin. In sin my mother gave birth to me.

Isaiah 64:6

All of us are dirty with sin. All the right things we have done are like filthy pieces of cloth. All of us are like dead leaves, and our sins, like the wind, have carried us away.

Matthew 15:19

Out of the mind come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual sins, stealing, lying, and speaking evil of others.

Luke 11:13

Even though you are bad, you know how to give good things to your children. How much more your heavenly Father will give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

John 3:6

Human life comes from human parents, but spiritual life comes from the Spirit.

Romans 13:14

But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ and forget about satisfying your sinful self.

Romans 7:15

I do not understand the things I do. I do not do what I want to do, and I do the things I hate.

Romans 7:19

I do not do the good things I want to do, but I do the bad things I do not want to do.

Romans 7:25

I thank God for saving me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So in my mind I am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful self I am a slave to the law of sin.

Romans 7:5

In the past, we were ruled by our sinful selves. The law made us want to do sinful things that controlled our bodies, so the things we did were bringing us death.

Galatians 5:17

Our sinful selves want what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit wants what is against our sinful selves. The two are against each other, so you cannot do just what you please.

Galatians 5:24

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their own sinful selves. They have given up their old selfish feelings and the evil things they wanted to do.

Philippians 2:13

because God is working in you to help you want to do and be able to do what pleases him.

Philippians 3:12

I do not mean that I am already as God wants me to be. I have not yet reached that goal, but I continue trying to reach it and to make it mine. Christ wants me to do that, which is the reason he made me his.

Titus 3:3

In the past we also were foolish. We did not obey, we were wrong, and we were slaves to many things our bodies wanted and enjoyed. We spent our lives doing evil and being jealous. People hated us, and we hated each other.

1 Peter 4:2

Strengthen yourselves so that you will live here on earth doing what God wants, not the evil things people want.