Romans 7:16
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
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- Rom 7:12 : 12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
- Rom 7:14 : 14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
- Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
- 1 Tim 1:8 : 8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
- Ps 119:127-128 : 127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. 128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
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7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
- Rom 7:17-259 verses88%
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
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17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
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17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
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8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
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16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
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12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
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17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
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2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
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14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
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3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
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15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
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7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
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17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
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5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
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8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
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6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
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1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
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4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
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23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
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12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
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10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
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1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
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14 But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.
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29 Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?
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8 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?