12 Bible Verses about People's Inability To Serve God
Most Relevant Verses
Because one's thinking the things suggested by the lower nature means enmity to God, for it does not subject itself to God's law, nor indeed can it.
For though the law could not do it, because it was made helpless through our lower nature, yet God, by sending His own Son in a body similar to that of our lower nature, and as a sacrifice for sin, passed sentence upon sin through His body,
"You must struggle on to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you, many will try to get in, but will not succeed,
For when we were still helpless, Christ at the proper time died for us ungodly men.
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and still more, his own life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.
Whoever does not persevere in carrying his own cross and thus following after me, cannot be a disciple of mine.
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the last day.
You must remain in union with me and I will remain in union with you. Just as no branch by itself can bear fruit unless it remains united to the vine, so you cannot unless you remain in union with me.
I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in union with me and I in union with him will bear abundant fruit, because you cannot do anything cut off from union with me.
"I know what you are doing. See! I have put before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have but little strength, and yet you have obeyed my message and you have not disowned my name.
For I know that nothing good has its home in me; that is, in my lower self; I have the will but not the power to do what is right.
