Romans 7:18

Paul knows that nothing good dwells in his flesh; he can will the good but not carry it out. The flesh has no power to produce true righteousness.

Cross-references · 31

• John 3:6Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.
• Ps 51:5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
• Gal 5:17For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.
• Ps 119:115–117Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may obey the commandments of my God.
• Rom 7:25Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
• Job 14:4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
• Gal 5:24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
• Job 15:14–16What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
• Gen 6:5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
• Phil 2:13For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.
• Mark 7:21–23For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
• Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
• Rom 8:3–13For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,
• Eph 2:1–5And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
• Rom 7:19For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.
• Rom 7:15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.
• Gen 8:21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
• Matt 15:19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
• Phil 3:12Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
• Ps 119:176I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
• 1 Pet 4:2Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.
• Luke 11:13So if you who 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!”
• Ps 119:40How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.
• Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
• Rom 13:14Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
• Rom 7:5For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
• Ps 119:173May Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen Your precepts.
• Gal 5:19–21The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
• Isa 64:6Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
• Ps 119:5Oh, that my ways were committed to keeping Your statutes!
• Ps 119:32I run in the path of Your commandments, for You will enlarge my heart.

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