Romans 7:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And I have no clear knowledge of what I am doing, for that which I have a mind to do, I do not, but what I have hate for, that I do.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gal 5:17 : 17 For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.
  • Phil 3:12-14 : 12 Not as if I had even now got the reward or been made complete: but I go on in the hope that I may come to the knowledge of that for which I was made the servant of Christ Jesus. 13 Brothers, it is clear to me that I have not come to that knowledge; but one thing I do, letting go those things which are past, and stretching out to the things which are before, 14 I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus.
  • 2 Tim 2:19 : 19 But God's strong base is unchanging, having this sign, The Lord has knowledge of those who are his: and, Let everyone by whom the name of the Lord is named be turned away from evil.
  • Heb 1:9 : 9 You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil; and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head more than on the heads of those who are with you.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.
  • 1 John 1:7-8 : 7 But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.
  • Jude 1:23 : 23 And to some give salvation, pulling them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the clothing which is made unclean by the flesh.
  • Eccl 7:20 : 20 There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.
  • Nah 1:7 : 7 The Lord is good, a strong place in the day of trouble; and he has knowledge of those who take him for their safe cover.
  • Rom 12:9 : 9 Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.
  • Rom 14:22 : 22 The faith which you have, have it to yourself before God. Happy is the man who is not judged by that to which he gives approval.
  • Rom 7:16 : 16 But, if I do that which I have no mind to do, I am in agreement with the law that the law is good.
  • Rom 7:19-20 : 19 For the good which I have a mind to do, I do not: but the evil which I have no mind to do, that I do. 20 But if I do what I have no mind to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.
  • Amos 5:15 : 15 Be haters of evil and lovers of good, and let right be done in the public place: it may be that the Lord, the God of armies, will have mercy on the rest of Joseph.
  • 1 Kgs 8:46 : 46 If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away as prisoners into a strange land, far off or near;
  • Ps 1:6 : 6 Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.
  • Ps 19:12 : 12 Who has full knowledge of his errors? make me clean from secret evil.
  • Ps 36:4 : 4 He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.
  • Ps 65:3 : 3 Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away.
  • Ps 97:10 : 10 You who are lovers of the Lord, be haters of evil; he keeps the souls of his saints; he takes them out of the hand of sinners.
  • Ps 101:3 : 3 I will not put any evil thing before my eyes; I am against all turning to one side; I will not have it near me.
  • Ps 119:1-6 : 1 <ALEPH> Happy are they who are without sin in their ways, walking in the law of the Lord. 2 Happy are they who keep his unchanging word, searching after him with all their heart. 3 They do no evil; they go in his ways. 4 You have put your orders into our hearts, so that we might keep them with care. 5 If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules! 6 Then I would not be put to shame, as long as I have respect for all your teaching.
  • Ps 119:32 : 32 I will go quickly in the way of your teaching, because you have given me a free heart.
  • Ps 119:40 : 40 See how great is my desire for your orders: give me life in your righteousness.
  • Ps 119:104 : 104 Through your orders I get wisdom; for this reason I am a hater of every false way.
  • Ps 119:113 : 113 <SAMECH> I am a hater of men of doubting mind; but I am a lover of your law.
  • Ps 119:128 : 128 Because of it I keep straight in all things by your orders; and I am a hater of every false way.
  • Ps 119:163 : 163 I am full of hate and disgust for false words; but I am a lover of your law.
  • Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.
  • Prov 13:5 : 5 The upright man is a hater of false words: the evil-doer gets a bad name and is put to shame.
  • Luke 11:48 : 48 So you are witnesses and give approval to the work of your fathers; for they put them to death and you make their last resting-places.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 7:16-25
    10 verses
    91%

    16 But, if I do that which I have no mind to do, I am in agreement with the law that the law is good.

    17 So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.

    18 For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.

    19 For the good which I have a mind to do, I do not: but the evil which I have no mind to do, that I do.

    20 But if I do what I have no mind to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.

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

    22 In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,

    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.

    24 How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?

    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.

  • Rom 7:5-14
    10 verses
    81%

    5 For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

    6 But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

    7 What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

    8 But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.

    9 And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;

    10 And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:

    11 For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.

    12 But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good.

    13 Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.

    14 For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.

  • Gal 5:17
    72%

    17 For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.

  • 1 Cor 4:3-4
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    70%

    3 But it is a small thing to me that I am judged by you or by man's judging; I am not even a judge of myself.

    4 For I am not conscious of any wrong in myself; but this does not make me clear, for it is the Lord who is my judge.

  • Gal 2:18-19
    2 verses
    70%

    18 For if I put up again those things which I gave to destruction, I am seen to be a wrongdoer.

    19 For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

  • Rom 8:2-3
    2 verses
    69%

    2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

    3 For what the law was not able to do because it was feeble through the flesh, God, sending his Son in the image of the evil flesh, and as an offering for sin, gave his decision against sin in the flesh:

  • 2 Cor 11:11-12
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    69%

    11 Why? because I have no love for you? let God be judge.

    12 But what I do, that I will go on doing, so that I may give no chance to those who are looking for one; so that, in the cause of their pride, they may be seen to be the same as we are.

  • Rom 6:15-16
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    69%

    15 What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.

    16 Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.

  • Jas 4:17
    69%

    17 The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

  • John 8:15
    68%

    15 You are judging from what you see; I am judging no man.

  • John 7:7
    68%

    7 It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.

  • 1 Cor 6:12
    68%

    12 I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.

  • Phil 1:22
    67%

    22 But if I go on living in the flesh--if this is the fruit of my work--then I do not see what decision to make.

  • Rom 3:7
    67%

    7 But if, because I am untrue, God being seen to be true gets more glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?

  • 1 Cor 9:27
    67%

    27 But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.

  • Rom 9:1-2
    2 verses
    67%

    1 I say what is true in Christ, and not what is false, my mind giving witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

    2 That I am full of sorrow and pain without end.

  • Rom 2:1
    66%

    1 So you have no reason, whoever you are, for judging: for in judging another you are judging yourself, for you do the same things.

  • Job 34:32
    66%

    32 ...

  • Rom 6:12
    66%

    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;

  • Job 7:16
    66%

    16 I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.

  • Eccl 7:20
    66%

    20 There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.

  • Rom 2:14-15
    2 verses
    66%

    14 For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves;

    15 Because the work of the law is seen in their hearts, their sense of right and wrong giving witness to it, while their minds are at one time judging them and at another giving them approval;

  • Rom 3:20
    66%

    20 Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • Rom 6:1
    66%

    1 What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace?

  • Matt 7:1
    66%

    1 Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged.