My Biggest Opponent Is Me

My Biggest Opponent Is Me

 

2 Timothy 2:25-26 (KJV)

25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

 

Isaiah 57:18-19 (TLB)

18 I have seen what they do, but I will heal them anyway! I will lead them and comfort them, helping them to mourn and to confess their sins.

19 Peace, peace to them, both near and far, for I will heal them all.

 

Romans 7:15-17 (TLB)

15 I don’t understand myself at all, for I really want to do what is right, but I can’t. I do what I don’t want to—what I hate.

16 I know perfectly well that what I am doing is wrong, and my bad conscience proves that I agree with these laws I am breaking.

17 But I can’t help myself because I’m no longer doing it. It is sin inside me that is stronger than I am that makes me do these evil things.

 

Proverbs 14:12 (NASB)

12 There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.

 

Genesis 3:10 (NIV)

10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

 

Romans 7:21 (TLB)

21 It seems to be a fact of life that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong.

 

Psalm 32:3 (TLB)

3 There was a time when I wouldn’t admit what a sinner I was.[a] But my dishonesty made me miserable and filled my days with frustration.

 

Psalm 32:4-5 (TLB)

4 All day and all night your hand was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water on a sunny day

5 until I finally admitted all my sins to you and stopped trying to hide them. I said to myself, “I will confess them to the Lord.” And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone.

 

Proverbs 28:13 (TLB)

13 A man who refuses to admit his mistakes can never be successful. But if he confesses and forsakes them, he gets another chance.

 

Psalm 6:6 (TLB)

6 I am worn out with pain; every night my pillow is wet with tears

 

Jeremiah 6:14 (TLB)

14 You can’t heal a wound by saying it’s not there! Yet the priests and prophets give assurances of peace when all is war.

 

2 Peter 2:19-20 (NLT)

19 They promise freedom, but they themselves are slaves of sin and corruption. For you are a slave to whatever controls you.

20 And when people escape from the wickedness of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and then get tangled up and enslaved by sin again, they are worse off than before.

 

2 Corinthians 1:8-9 (TLB)

8 I think you ought to know, dear brothers, about the hard time we went through in Asia. We were really crushed and overwhelmed, and feared we would never live through it.

9 We felt we were doomed to die and saw how powerless we were to help ourselves; but that was good, for then we put everything into the hands of God, who alone could save us, for he can even raise the dead.

 

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 (NIV)

9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

 

James 4:6 (NRSV)

6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”