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For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
View on BibleGatewaySo then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.
View on BibleGateway1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
5 even when we were dead in our trespasses...
View on BibleGatewayAnd you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses
View on BibleGatewayThe natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
View on BibleGatewayA healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit.
View on BibleGatewayFor no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit,
View on BibleGateway3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. 4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
View on BibleGatewayFor everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
View on BibleGatewayno one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
View on BibleGatewayJohn answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.”
View on BibleGateway16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
View on BibleGateway12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
View on BibleGateway44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”
View on BibleGatewayBut to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.
View on BibleGateway34 You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.
View on BibleGatewayCan the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.
View on BibleGatewayAs the proverb of the ancients says, "Out of the wicked comes wickedness."
View on BibleGatewayAnd you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds
View on BibleGatewayIn the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”
View on BibleGatewayI was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me.
View on BibleGatewayThere is no one who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have made us melt in the hand of our iniquities.
View on BibleGateway18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God... 22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
View on BibleGatewayIn the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”
View on BibleGatewayBut to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.
View on BibleGatewayAs the proverb of the ancients says, "Out of the wicked comes wickedness."
View on BibleGatewayThere is no one who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have made us melt in the hand of our iniquities.
View on BibleGatewayI was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me.
View on BibleGatewayCan the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.
View on BibleGatewayA healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit.
View on BibleGatewayno one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
View on BibleGateway34 You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.
View on BibleGatewayFor no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit,
View on BibleGateway12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
View on BibleGatewayFor everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
View on BibleGatewayJohn answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.”
View on BibleGateway44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”
View on BibleGateway16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
View on BibleGatewayFor the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
View on BibleGatewaySo then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.
View on BibleGateway18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God... 22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
View on BibleGatewayThe natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
View on BibleGateway3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. 4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
View on BibleGateway1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
5 even when we were dead in our trespasses...
View on BibleGatewayAnd you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds
View on BibleGatewayAnd you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses
View on BibleGateway