Romans 7:20

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Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

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

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  • Rom 7:5-19
    15 verses
    95%

    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

    6But now we have been released from the law, having died to what once bound us, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, 'You shall not covet.'

    8But sin, seizing the opportunity provided by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.

    9At one time I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin came to life and I died.

    10I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.

    11For sin, seizing the opportunity provided by the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.

    12So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

    13Did what is good then become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, in order to be recognized as sin, used what is good to bring about my death, so that sin might become utterly sinful through the commandment.

    14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

    15For I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do, but what I hate, I do.

    16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.

    17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.

    18For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

    19For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.

  • Rom 7:21-25
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    21So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

    22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;

    23but I see another law at work in my members, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.

    24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

    25Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

  • Eccl 7:20
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    20Surely there is no one righteous on earth who always does good and never sins.

  • Gal 5:16-17
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    16I say then, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.

    17For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want to do.

  • Rom 8:2-4
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    72%

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

    3For what the law could not do, weakened as it was by the flesh, God did. By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as a sin offering, He condemned sin in the flesh.

    4This was so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

  • Gal 2:17-20
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    17But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!

    18For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a lawbreaker.

    19For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ.

    20I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

  • Rom 6:12
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    12Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.

  • Jas 4:17
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    17So, if anyone knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.

  • Rom 3:20
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    20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • Rom 3:7
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    7If the truth of God has increased His glory through my falsehood, why am I still judged as a sinner?

  • Rom 6:1-2
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    1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?

    2Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

  • 1 John 3:4
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    4Everyone who commits sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

  • 1 Cor 4:4
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    4I am not aware of anything against myself, but that does not make me innocent. The one who judges me is the Lord.

  • Rom 6:15
    69%

    15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Certainly not!

  • Mark 7:20-21
    2 verses
    69%

    20And He continued, "What comes out of a person is what defiles him.

    21For from within, out of the human heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,

  • Rom 6:7
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    7For the one who has died has been freed from sin.

  • Rom 8:8
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    8Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

  • 1 Cor 9:17
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    17If I do this willingly, I have a reward. But if unwillingly, I am simply entrusted with a responsibility.

  • Job 7:20
    69%

    20If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?

  • Rom 3:9
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    9What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already charged that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin.

  • Phil 1:22
    69%

    22Now if I live on in the flesh, this means fruitful labor for me. Yet I do not know what I shall choose.

  • Rom 8:10
    68%

    10But if Christ is in you, even though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness.

  • 1 John 1:8
    68%

    8If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

  • Mark 7:23
    68%

    23All these evils come from within and defile a person.