15 Bible Verses about People's Inability To Serve God

Joshua said to the people, "You can't serve the LORD; for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.

"You know how that David my father could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.

so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.

because the mind set on the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

"Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

"If anyone comes to me, and does not hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Whoever 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 draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

"I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and did not deny my name.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but to do that which is good is not.