Verse 21

So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me.

Referenced Verses

  • Rom 7:23 : 23 But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.
  • Rom 6:14 : 14 For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.
  • Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
  • Eph 6:11-13 : 11 Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One. 12 For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens. 13 For this reason take up all the arms of God, so that you may be able to be strong in the evil day, and, having done all, to keep your place.
  • Heb 2:17 : 17 Because of this it was necessary for him to be made like his brothers in every way, so that he might be a high priest full of mercy and keeping faith in everything to do with God, making offerings for the sins of the people.
  • Heb 4:15 : 15 For we have not a high priest who is not able to be touched by the feelings of our feeble flesh; but we have one who has been tested in all points as we ourselves are tested, but without sin.
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.
  • Rom 7:25 : 25 I give praise to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with my mind I am a servant to the law of God, but with my flesh to the law of sin.
  • 2 Chr 30:18-19 : 18 For a great number of the people from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not made themselves clean, but they took the Passover meal, though not in the right way. For Hezekiah had made prayer for them, saying, May the good Lord have mercy on everyone 19 Who, with all his heart, is turned to God the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place.
  • Ps 19:12-13 : 12 Who has full knowledge of his errors? make me clean from secret evil. 13 Keep your servant back from sins of pride; let them not have rule over me: then will I be upright and free from great sin.
  • Ps 40:12 : 12 For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.
  • Ps 65:3 : 3 Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away.
  • Ps 119:37 : 37 Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.
  • Ps 119:133 : 133 Let my steps be guided by your word; and let not sin have control over me.
  • Isa 6:5-7 : 5 Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies. 6 Then a winged one came to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from off the altar with the fire-spoon. 7 And after touching my mouth with it, he said, See, your lips have been touched with this; and your evil is taken away, and you are made clean from sin.
  • Zech 3:1-4 : 1 And he let me see Joshua, the high priest, in his place before the angel of the Lord, and the Satan at his right hand ready to take up a cause against him. 2 And the Lord said to the Satan, May the Lord's word be sharp against you, O Satan, the word of the Lord who has taken Jerusalem for himself: is this not a burning branch pulled out of the fire? 3 Now Joshua was clothed in unclean robes, and he was in his place before the angel. 4 And he made answer and said to those who were there before him, Take the unclean robes off him, and let him be clothed in clean robes;
  • Luke 4:1 : 1 And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, came back from the Jordan, and was guided by the Spirit in the waste land
  • John 8:34 : 34 And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin.
  • Rom 6:12 : 12 For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;