Romans 8:6-8
“There are Christians that begin with the Spirit, but end with the flesh. They are converted, born again through the Spirit, but fall unconsciously into a life in which they endeavor to overcome sin and be holy through their own exertion, through doing their best. They ask God to help them in these their endeavors, and think that this is faith. They do not understand what it is to say: ‘In me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing,’ and that therefore they are to cease from their own endeavors, in order to do God’s will, wholly and only through the Spirit.”
Andrew Murray, The New Life: Words of God for Young Disciples of Christ (New York: Hurst & Company, 1891), 119–120.
Proverbs 1:7
John 17:3
Jeremiah 9:23-24
Isaiah 6:5
Isaiah 64:5-6