12 Bible Verses about People's Inability To Serve God

because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither, indeed, can it be;

and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

For, what was impossible under law, wherein it was weak through the flesh. God, sending His Own Son in likeness of sinful flesh, and, respecting sin, condemned sin in the flesh;

And He said to them, "Strive to enter in through the narrow door; because many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

For, while we were yet weak, Christ, in due season, died for the ungodly.

"If any one comes to Me, and hates not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and, further, his own soul also, he cannot be My disciple.

And whosoever does not bear his own cross, and come after Me, cannot be My disciple.

No one can come to Me, unless the Father Who sent Me draw him; and I will raise him up at the last day.

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, unless ye abide in Me.

I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abides in Me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit; because, apart from Me, ye can do nothing.

"I know your works. Behold, I have set before you a door opened, which no one can shut; because you have a little power, and kept My word, and did not deny My name.

For I know that there dwells not in me, that is, in my flesh, any good; for to wish is present with me: but to do that which is good a not.