Romans 7:18

Geneva Bible (1560)

For 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.

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  • John 3:6 : 6 That which is borne of the flesh, is flesh: and that that is borne of the Spirit, is spirit.
  • Rom 7:25 : 25 I 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.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For wee our selues also were in times past vnwise, disobedient, deceiued, seruing the lustes and diuers pleasures, liuing in maliciousnes and enuie, hatefull, and hating one another:
  • Gen 6:5 : 5 When the Lorde sawe that the wickednesse of man was great in the earth, and all the imaginations of the thoughtes of his heart were onely euill continually,
  • Gen 8:21 : 21 And the Lord smelled a sauour of rest, and the Lord said in his heart, I will hencefoorth curse the ground no more for mans cause: for the imagination of mans heart is euill, euen from his youth: neither will I smite any more all things liuing, as I haue done.
  • Job 14:4 : 4 Who can bring a cleane thing out of filthinesse? there is not one.
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 Beholde, I was borne in iniquitie, and in sinne hath my mother conceiued me.
  • Job 15:14-16 : 14 What is man, that he should be cleane? and he that is borne of woman, that he shoulde be iust? 15 Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Saintes: yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight. 16 How much more is man abominable, and filthie, which drinketh iniquitie like water?
  • Ps 119:115-117 : 115 Away from mee, yee wicked: for I will keepe the commaundements of my God. 116 Stablish me according to thy promes, that I may liue, and disappoint me not of mine hope. 117 Stay thou mee, and I shall be safe, and I will delite continually in thy statutes.
  • Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart come euil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, slaunders.
  • Mark 7:21-23 : 21 For from within, euen out of the heart of men, proceede euill thoughtes, adulteries, fornications, murthers, 22 Theftes, couetousnes, wickednes, deceite, vncleannes, a wicked eye, backbiting, pride, foolishnesse. 23 All these euill things come from within, and defile a man.
  • Luke 11:13 : 13 If yee then which are euill, can giue good giftes vnto your children, howe much more shall your heauenly Father giue the holy Ghost to them, that desire him?
  • 1 Pet 4:2 : 2 That he hence forward should liue (as much time as remaineth in the flesh) not after the lusts of men, but after the will of God.
  • Rom 8:3-9 : 3 For (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, 4 That that righteousnes of the Law might be fulfilled in vs, which walke not after ye flesh, but after the Spirit. 5 For they that are after the flesh, sauour the things of the flesh: but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For the wisedome of the flesh is death: but the wisedome of the Spirit is life and peace, 7 Because the wisedome of the flesh is enimitie against God: for it is not subiect to the Lawe of God, neither in deede can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh, can not please God. 9 Now ye are not in the flesh, but in ye Spirit, because ye spirit of God dwelleth in you: but if any man hath not ye Spirit of Christ, ye same is not his. 10 And if Christ bee in you, the body is dead, because of sinne: but the Spirite is life for righteousnesse sake. 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised vp Iesus from the dead, dwell in you, he that raised vp Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortall bodies, by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 12 Therefore brethren, wee are detters not to the flesh, to liue after the flesh: 13 For if ye liue after the flesh, ye shall die: but if yee mortifie the deedes of the body by the Spirit, ye shall liue.
  • Rom 13:14 : 14 But put yee on the Lorde Iesvs Christ, and take no thought for the flesh, to fulfill the lustes of it.
  • Gal 5:17 : 17 For 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.
  • Gal 5:19-21 : 19 Moreouer the workes of the flesh are manifest, which are adulterie, fornication, vncleannes, wantonnes, 20 Idolatrie, witchcraft, hatred, debate, emulations, wrath, contentions, seditions, heresies, 21 Enuie, murthers, drunkennesse, gluttonie, and such like, whereof I tell you before, as I also haue tolde you before, that they which doe such things, shall not inherite the kingdome of God.
  • Gal 5:24 : 24 For they that are Christes, haue crucified the flesh with the affections and the lustes.
  • Eph 2:1-5 : 1 And you hath he quickened, that were dead in trespasses and sinnes, 2 Wherein, in times past ye walked, according to the course of this world, and after the prince that ruleth in the aire, euen the spirite, that nowe worketh in the children of disobedience, 3 Among whom we also had our conuersation in time past, in the lustes of our flesh, in fulfilling the will of the flesh, and of the minde, and were by nature the children of wrath, as well as others. 4 But God which is rich in mercie, through his great loue wherewith he loued vs, 5 Euen when we were dead by sinnes, hath quickened vs together in Christ, by whose grace ye are saued,
  • Phil 2:13 : 13 For it is God which worketh in you, both the will and the deede, euen of his good pleasure.
  • Phil 3:12 : 12 Not as though I had alreadie attained to it, either were alreadie perfect: but I folow, if that I may comprehend that for whose sake also I am comprehended of Christ Iesus.
  • Ps 119:173 : 173 Let thine hand helpe me: for I haue chosen thy precepts.
  • Ps 119:176 : 176 I haue gone astraye like a lost sheepe: seeke thy seruant, for I doe not forget thy commaundements.
  • Rom 7:5 : 5 For 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.
  • Rom 7:15 : 15 For I alow not that which I do: for what I would, that do I not: but what I hate, that do I.
  • Rom 7:19 : 19 For I doe not the good thing, which I would, but the euil, which I would not, that do I.
  • Ps 119:5 : 5 Oh that my waies were directed to keepe thy statutes!
  • Ps 119:32 : 32 I will runne the way of thy commaundements, when thou shalt enlarge mine heart.
  • Ps 119:40 : 40 Beholde, I desire thy commaundementes: quicken me in thy righteousnesse,
  • Job 25:4 : 4 And howe may a man be iustified with God? or how can he be cleane, that is borne of woman?
  • Isa 64:6 : 6 But we haue all bene as an vncleane thing, and all our righteousnes is as filthie cloutes, and we all doe fade like a leafe, and our iniquities like the winde haue taken vs away.

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    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.

    16If I doe then that which I woulde not, I consent to the Lawe, that it is good.

    17Nowe then, it is no more I, that doe it, but sinne that dwelleth in me.

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    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!

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    1Now then there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Iesus, which walke not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

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    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,

    4That that righteousnes of the Law might be fulfilled in vs, which walke not after ye flesh, but after the Spirit.

    5For they that are after the flesh, sauour the things of the flesh: but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

    6For the wisedome of the flesh is death: but the wisedome of the Spirit is life and peace,

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    8So then they that are in the flesh, can not please God.

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    11There is none that vnderstandeth: there is none that seeketh God.

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    23All these euill things come from within, and defile a man.

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