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 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
• Ps 51:5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
• Gal 5:17For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
• Ps 119:115–117Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
• Rom 7:25I 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.
• Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
• Gal 5:24And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
• Job 15:14–16What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• Gen 6:5And God 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.
• Phil 2:13For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
• Mark 7:21–23For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
• Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Rom 8:3–13For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
• Eph 2:1–5And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
• Rom 7:19For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
• Rom 7:15For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
• Gen 8:21And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
• Matt 15:19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
• Phil 3:12Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
• Ps 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
• 1 Pet 4:2That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
• Luke 11:13If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
• Ps 119:40Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
• Job 25:4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
• Rom 13:14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
• Rom 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
• Ps 119:173Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
• Gal 5:19–21Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
• Isa 64:6But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
• Ps 119:5O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
• Ps 119:32I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

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