Romans 7:18

New King James Version

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.

Cross References

Genesis 6:5

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

Genesis 8:21

And the Lord smelled a soothing aroma. Then the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination 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? No one!

Job 25:4

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

Psalm 119:173

Let Your hand become my help, For I have chosen Your precepts.

Psalm 119:176

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; Seek Your servant, For I do not forget Your commandments.

Psalm 119:32

I will run the course 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 are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; 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, fornications, thefts, false witness, 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 what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.

Romans 7:19

For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.

Romans 7:25

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

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.

Galatians 5:24

And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Philippians 2:13

for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

Philippians 3:12

Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

1 Peter 4:2

that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.