Romans 7:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Rom 7:17 : 17 So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.

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  • Rom 7:5-19
    15 verses
    95%

    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.

    15 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.

    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.

  • Rom 7:21-25
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    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.

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

  • Gal 5:16-17
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    16 But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.

    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.

  • Rom 8:2-4
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    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:

    4 So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.

  • Gal 2:17-20
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    17 But if, while we were desiring to get righteousness through Christ, we ourselves were seen to be sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? In no way!

    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.

    20 I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.

  • 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;

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

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • Rom 6:1-2
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    1 What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace?

    2 In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?

  • 4 Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.

  • 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.

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

  • Mark 7:20-21
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    20 And he said, That which comes out of the man, that makes the man unclean.

    21 Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,

  • 7 Because he who is dead is free from sin.

  • 8 So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God.

  • 17 But if I do it gladly, I have a reward; and if not, I am under orders to do it.

  • 20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

  • 9 What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;

  • 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.

  • 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

  • 8 If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

  • 23 All these evil things come from inside, and make the man unclean.