Romans 7:18

New International Version

For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

Cross References

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.

Genesis 8:21

The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

Job 14:4

Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!

Job 25:4

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

Psalm 119:173

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

Psalm 119:176

I have strayed like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I have not forgotten your commands.

Psalm 119:32

I run in the path of your commands, for you have broadened my understanding.

Psalm 119:40

How I long for your precepts! In your righteousness preserve my life.

Psalm 119:5

Oh, that my ways were steadfast in obeying your decrees!

Psalm 51:5

Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

Isaiah 64:6

All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.

Matthew 15:19

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

Luke 11:13

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

John 3:6

Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.

Romans 13:14

Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.

Romans 7:15

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

Romans 7:19

For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.

Romans 7:25

Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.

Galatians 5:24

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Philippians 2:13

for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.

Philippians 3:12

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

Titus 3:3

At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

1 Peter 4:2

As a result, they do not live the rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God.