TSK · Romans 7:18

But the LORD saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.

Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!

How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

If only I were predisposed to keep your statutes!

Look, I long for your precepts. Revive me with your deliverance!

May your hand help me, for I choose to obey your precepts.

We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight. We all wither like a leaf; our sins carry us away like the wind.

For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want– instead, I do what I hate.

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

New Life Individually And although you were dead in your offenses and sins,

Keep Going Forward Not that I have already attained this– that is, I have not already been perfected– but I strive to lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus also laid hold of me.

in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.