Romans 7:19
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
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- Rom 7:15 : 15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
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- Rom 7:20-256 verses92%
20Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23But 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.
24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25I 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.
- Rom 7:7-1812 verses91%
7What 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.
8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13Was 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.
14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
17Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18For 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.
- Gal 5:16-172 verses75%
16This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
17For 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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20For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
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17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
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5For 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.
- Gal 2:18-192 verses69%
18For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
19For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
- Mark 7:20-212 verses69%
20And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
- Matt 7:17-182 verses69%
17Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
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4For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
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7For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
8And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
9What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
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23All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
- Rom 8:2-32 verses68%
2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3For 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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20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
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12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
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1Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
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7Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
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17For 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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8So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
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2That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
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12They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
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20They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
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22But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
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20I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
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20For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
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19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
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12All 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.