Romans 7:18
7:18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.
Romans 7:20
7:20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.
Romans 7:23
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.
James 4:5-6
4:5 Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says,
“The spirit that God
caused
to live within us has an envious yearning”?
4:6 But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “
God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.”