Romans 7:18

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it.

Cross References

Genesis 6:5

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

Genesis 8:21

And when the Lord smelled the pleasing odor, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.

Job 25:4

How then can man be righteous before God? How can he who is born of woman be clean?

Psalm 119:173

Let thy hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen thy precepts.

Psalm 119:176

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy commandments.

Psalm 119:32

I will run in the way of thy commandments when thou enlargest my understanding!

Psalm 119:40

Behold, I long for thy precepts; in thy righteousness give me life!

Psalm 119:5

O that my ways may be steadfast in keeping thy statutes!

Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Isaiah 64:6

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.

Luke 11:13

If you then, who 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

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 gratify its desires.

Romans 7:15

I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.

Romans 7:19

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

Romans 7:25

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

Romans 7:5

While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

Galatians 5:17

For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you would.

Galatians 5:24

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

Philippians 2:13

for God is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Philippians 3:12

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by men and hating one another;

1 Peter 4:2

so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer by human passions but by the will of God.