Romans 7:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

If I doe then that which I woulde not, I consent to the Lawe, that it is good.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 7:12 : 12 Wherefore the Lawe is holy, and that commandement is holy, and iust, and good.
  • Rom 7:14 : 14 For we knowe that the Law is spirituall, but I am carnall, solde vnder sinne.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delite in the Law of God, concerning the inner man:
  • 1 Tim 1:8 : 8 And we knowe, that the Law is good, if a man vse it lawfully,
  • Ps 119:127-128 : 127 Therefore loue I thy commaundements aboue golde, yea, aboue most fine golde. 128 Therefore I esteeme all thy precepts most iust, and hate all false wayes.

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  • Rom 7:7-15
    9 verses
    89%

    7What shall we say then? Is the Lawe sinne? God forbid. Nay, I knewe not sinne, but by the Lawe: for I had not knowen lust, except the Lawe had sayd, Thou shalt not lust.

    8But sinne tooke an occasion by ye commandement, and wrought in me all maner of concupiscence: for without the Lawe sinne is dead.

    9For I once was aliue, wtout the Law: but when the commandement came, sinne reuiued,

    10But I died: and the same commandement which was ordeined vnto life, was found to be vnto me vnto death.

    11For sinne tooke occasion by the commandement, and deceiued me, and thereby slewe me.

    12Wherefore the Lawe is holy, and that commandement is holy, and iust, and good.

    13Was that then which is good, made death vnto me? God forbid: but sinne, that it might appeare sinne, wrought death in me by that which is good, that sinne might be out of measure sinfull by the commandement.

    14For we knowe that the Law is spirituall, but I am carnall, solde vnder sinne.

    15For I alow not that which I do: for what I would, that do I not: but what I hate, that do I.

  • Rom 7:17-25
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    17Nowe then, it is no more I, that doe it, but sinne that dwelleth in me.

    18For I know, that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to wil is preset with me: but I find no meanes to perform that which is good.

    19For I doe not the good thing, which I would, but the euil, which I would not, that do I.

    20Nowe if I do that I would not, it is no more I that doe it, but the sinne that dwelleth in me.

    21I finde then that when I would doe good, I am thus yoked, that euill is present with me.

    22For I delite in the Law of God, concerning the inner man:

    23But I see another Law in my members, rebelling against the Lawe of my minde, and leading me captiue vnto the lawe of sinne, which is in my members.

    24O wretched man that I am, who shall deliuer me from the body of this death!

    25I thanke God through Iesus Christ our Lorde. Then I my selfe in my minde serue the Lawe of God, but in my flesh the lawe of sinne.

  • Gal 2:17-19
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    71%

    17If then while we seeke to be made righteous by Christ, we our selues are found sinners, is Christ therefore the minister of sinne? God forbid.

    18For if I build againe the things that I haue destroyed, I make my selfe a trespasser.

    19For I through the Lawe am dead to the Lawe, that I might liue vnto God.

  • 1 Cor 9:17
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    17For if I do it willingly, I haue a reward, but if I do it against my will, notwithstanding the dispensation is committed vnto me.

  • 1 Tim 1:8
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    8And we knowe, that the Law is good, if a man vse it lawfully,

  • Gal 5:16-17
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    16Then I say, Walke in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lustes of the flesh.

    17For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary one to another, so that ye can not doe the same things that ye would.

  • 1 Cor 6:12
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    12All thinges are lawfull vnto mee, but all thinges are not profitable. I may doe all things, but I will not be brought vnder the power of any thing.

  • Jas 4:17
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    17Therefore, to him that knoweth howe to doe well, and doeth it not, to him it is sinne.

  • Rom 8:2-3
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    2For the Lawe of the Spirite of life, which is in Christ Iesus, hath freed mee from the lawe of sinne and of death.

    3For (that that was impossible to ye Lawe, in as much as it was weake, because of ye flesh) God sending his owne Sonne, in ye similitude of sinful flesh, & for sinne, condened sinne in the flesh,

  • Rom 2:14-15
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    14For when the Gentiles which haue not the Lawe, doe by nature, the things conteined in the Lawe, they hauing not the Lawe, are a Lawe vnto themselues,

    15Which shew the effect of the Lawe written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witnes, and their thoughts accusing one another, or excusing,)

  • 1 Cor 4:3-4
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    70%

    3As touching me, I passe very litle to be iudged of you, or of mans iudgement: no, I iudge not mine owne selfe.

    4For I know nothing by my selfe, yet am I not thereby iustified: but he that iudgeth me, is the Lord.

  • Rom 6:15-16
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    15What then? shall we sinne, because we are not vnder the Law, but vnder grace? God forbid.

    16Knowe ye not, that to whomsoeuer yee giue your selues as seruats to obey, his seruants ye are to whom ye obey, whether it be of sinne vnto death, or of obedience vnto righteousnesse?

  • Rom 3:7
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    7For if the veritie of God hath more abounded through my lye vnto his glorie, why am I yet condemned as a sinner?

  • Jas 2:11
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    11For he that saide, Thou shalt not commit adulterie, saide also, Thou shalt not kill. Nowe though thou doest none adulterie, yet if thou killest, thou art a transgressour of the Lawe.

  • John 7:17
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    17If any man will doe his will, he shall knowe of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speake of my selfe.

  • Rom 7:5
    68%

    5For when we were in ye flesh, the affections of sinnes, which were by the Law, had force in our members, to bring foorth fruit vnto death.

  • Ps 40:8
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    8I desired to doe thy good will, O my God: yea, thy Lawe is within mine heart.

  • 1 Cor 7:6
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    6But I speake this by permission, not by commandement.

  • Rom 6:1
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    1What shall we say then? Shall we continue still in sinne, that grace may abounde? God forbid.

  • 1 John 3:4
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    4Whosoeuer committeth sinne, transgresseth also the Law: for sinne is the transgression of the Lawe.

  • 1 Cor 10:23
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    23All things are lawfull for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawfull for me, but all things edifie not.

  • 2 Cor 8:12
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    12For if there be first a willing minde, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.

  • Jer 18:10
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    10But if it do euill in my sight and heare not my voyce, I will repent of ye good that I thought to do for them.

  • Rom 9:1
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    1I say the trueth in Christ, I lye not, my conscience bearing mee witnes in the holy Ghost,

  • Phlm 1:14
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    14But without thy minde woulde I doe nothing, that thy benefite should not be as it were of necessitie, but willingly.

  • 1 Cor 10:29
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    29And the conscience, I say, not thine, but of that other: for why should my libertie be condemned of another mans conscience?

  • 1 Cor 9:8
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    8Say I these thinges according to man? saith not the Lawe the same also?