Romans 7:18

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

I know that there is nothing good in me-I mean in my earthly nature. For, although it is easy for me to want to do right, to act rightly is not easy.

Cross References

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts--murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, perjury, slander.

Luke 11:13

If you, then, naturally wicked though you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in Heaven give the Holy Spirit to those that ask him!"

John 3:6

All that owes its birth to human nature is human, and all that owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual.

Romans 13:14

No! Arm yourselves with the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, and spend no thought on your earthly nature, to satisfy its cravings.

Romans 7:15

I do not understand my own actions. For I am so far from habitually doing what I want to do, that I find myself doing the very thing that I hate.

Romans 7:19

I fail to do the good thing that I want to do, but the bad thing that I want not to do-that I habitually do.

Romans 7:25

Thank God, there is deliverance through Jesus Christ, our Lord! Well then, for myself, with my reason I serve the Law of God, but with my earthly nature the Law of Sin.

Romans 7:5

When we were living merely earthly lives, our sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were active in every part of our bodies, with the result that our lives bore fruit for Death.

Galatians 5:17

For these cravings of our earthly nature conflict with the Spirit, and the Spirit with our earthly nature--they are two contrary principles--so that you cannot do what you wish.

Galatians 5:24

And those who belong to Jesus, the Christ, have already crucified their earthly nature, with its passions and its cravings.

Philippians 2:13

Remember it is God who, in his kindness, is at work within you, enabling you both to will and to work.

Philippians 3:12

Not that I have already laid hold of it, or that I am already made perfect. But I press on, in the hope of actually laying hold of that for which indeed I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

Titus 3:3

There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.

1 Peter 4:2

and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.