Romans 7:18

New English Translation

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.

Cross References

Genesis 6:5

But the Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.

Genesis 8:21

And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.

Job 14:4

Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!

Job 25:4

How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

Psalm 119:173

May your hand help me, for I choose to obey your precepts.

Psalm 119:176

I have wandered off like a lost sheep. Come looking for your servant, for I do not forget your commands.

Psalm 119:32

I run along the path of your commands, for you enable me to do so. ה (He)

Psalm 119:40

Look, I long for your precepts. Revive me with your deliverance! ו (Vav)

Psalm 119:5

If only I were predisposed to keep your statutes!

Psalm 51:5

Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

Isaiah 64:6

We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight. We all wither like a leaf; our sins carry us away like the wind.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

Luke 11:13

If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

John 3:6

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 13:14

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.

Romans 7:15

For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want – instead, I do what I hate.

Romans 7:19

For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!

Romans 7:25

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

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to each other, so that you cannot do what you want.

Galatians 5:24

Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Philippians 2:13

for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort – for the sake of his good pleasure – is God.

Philippians 3:12

Not that I have already attained this – that is, I have not already been perfected – but I strive to lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus also laid hold of me.

Titus 3:3

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

1 Peter 4:2

in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.