Philippians 3:13
3:13 Brothers and sisters,
I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single-minded:
Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead,
Philippians 3:16
3:16 Nevertheless, let us live up to the standard
that we have already attained.
Psalms 119:5
119:5 If only I were predisposed
to keep your statutes!
Psalms 119:173-176
119:173 May your hand help me,
for I choose to obey your precepts.
119:174 I long for your deliverance, O Lord;
I find delight in your law.
119:175 May I live and praise you!
May your regulations help me!
119:176 I have wandered off like a lost sheep.
Come looking for your servant,
for I do not forget your commands.
Romans 7:19-24
7:19 For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!
7:20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.
7:21 So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.
7:22 For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.
7:23 But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.
7:24 Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
Galatians 5:17
5:17 For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires
that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to
each other, so that you cannot do what you want.
Galatians 5:1
Freedom of the Believer
5:1 For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.
Galatians 6:12
6:12 Those who want to make a good showing in external matters are trying to force you to be circumcised. They do so only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.
James 3:2
3:2 For we all stumble
in many ways. If someone does not stumble
in what he says,
he is a perfect individual,
able to control the entire body as well.