5 Mosebok 2:30

Verse 30. But self-love, which reigns supreme in the natural mind before regeneration, will not suffer the regenerate thus to proceed unmolested on their heavenly journey; for it is diametrically opposed both in will and opinion to all good and truth from the Lord, and refuses all agreement with spiritual things, and must therefore be entirely overcome and conquered in the state to which the soul has now arrived.