• Romans 7:15 (NIV) 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
• Romans 7:18–19 (NIV) 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.  
• Romans 7:24–25 (NIV) 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
• Galatians 6:9 (NIV) Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. 
• Romans 6:6-7, 18 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin... 18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. 

Successful people do consistently what other people do occasionally. - Craig Groeschel  

“Our habits will make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.” Sean Covey 

Three Reasons We Don’t Succeed (outline from Greg Groeshel) 

1. We focus on the what but don’t understand the how.

“You don’t rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems.” James Clear

2. We don’t see progress fast enough.

    Wrongly conclude: Small good decisions don’t matter that much.

    Wrongly conclude: Small bad decisions don’t matter that much.

• Our life is the sum total of all the small decisions that we make.

• It’s the things that no one sees that bring results everyone wants.

3. Our distorted identity sabotages our success.

• An unhealthy identity creates unwise habits.

• Unwise habits reinforce an unhealthy identity.

• A healthy identity creates positive habits.

• Positive habits reinforce a healthy identity.

On Romans 6:6-7 Paul insists that we are now ‘in the Messiah’, so that what is true of him is true of us, however unlikely it sounds and however much it doesn’t yet feel true. And what is true of the Messiah, ever since the glory of Easter day, is that he is alive again with a life death cannot touch. He hasn’t come back into the same life, as did Jairus’ daughter, Lazarus and those others raised by Jesus (and for that matter by Elijah and Elisha). He has gone on, through death and out the other side into a new bodily life beyond the reach of death—a concept we find difficult to grasp but about which the early Christians are very clear. Paul’s point is that, if we are ‘in the Messiah’, then that is where we are, too. Of course, we are not yet bodily raised as one day we shall be. That remains in the future. That future is secure and certain, as Paul says in 8:11 and in the entire argument of 1 Corinthians 15, but it remains in the future none the less. But part of the point of being a Christian is that the future has come forward into the present in the person and achievement of Jesus, so that his followers already taste the reality of that future while living in the present. The Christian stands on resurrection ground. We are not ‘in Adam’, we are ‘in the Messiah’, the one who died and is now alive for evermore. - N.T. Wright  

On Romans 7:17 Now it is no more I who do it This is not the pleading of one excusing himself, as though he was blameless, as the case is with many triflers who think that they have a sufficient defence to cover all their wickedness, when they cast the blame on the flesh; but it is a declaration, by which he shows how very far he dissented from his own flesh in his spiritual feeling; for the faithful are carried along in their obedience to God with such fervour of spirit that they deny the flesh. This passage also clearly shows, that Paul speaks here of none but of the godly, who have been already born again; for as long as man remains like himself, whatsoever he may be, he is justly deemed corrupt; but Paul here denies that he is wholly possessed by sin; nay, he declares himself to be exempt from its bondage, as though he had said, that sin only dwelt in some part of his soul, while with an earnest feeling of heart he strove for and aspired after the righteousness of God, and clearly proved that he had the law of God engraven within him. - John Calvin