Romans 7:12

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

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  • 1 Tim 1:8 : 8 But we know that the law [is] good, if a man use it lawfully;
  • Ps 119:137 : 137 ¶ TZADDI. Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, and upright [are] thy judgments.
  • Ps 119:140 : 140 ¶ Thy word [is] very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
  • Ps 119:172 : 172 ¶ My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments [are] righteousness.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
  • Rom 7:14 : 14 ¶ For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
  • Rom 7:16 : 16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that [it is] good.
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
  • Deut 4:8 : 8 And what nation [is there so] great, that hath statutes and judgments [so] righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
  • Deut 10:12 : 12 ¶ And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
  • Neh 9:13 : 13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
  • Ps 19:7-9 : 7 ¶ The law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making wise the simple. 8 The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes. 9 The fear of the LORD [is] clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD [are] true [and] righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired [are they] than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. 11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: [and] in keeping of them [there is] great reward. 12 Who can understand [his] errors? cleanse thou me from secret [faults].
  • Ps 119:38 : 38 ¶ Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who [is devoted] to thy fear.
  • Ps 119:86 : 86 All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
  • Ps 119:127 : 127 ¶ Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 7:13-25
    13 verses
    83%

    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.

    14¶ For 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.

    19For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

    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 7:5-11
    7 verses
    78%

    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.

    6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.

    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.

    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].

  • 1 Tim 1:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8But we know that the law [is] good, if a man use it lawfully;

    9Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

  • Rom 3:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

    21But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

  • Rom 8:2-4
    3 verses
    71%

    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:

    4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

  • Ps 19:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7¶ The law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making wise the simple.

    8The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes.

  • Rom 2:12-14
    3 verses
    69%

    12For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

    13(For not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

    14For 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:

  • Gal 3:21
    69%

    21[Is] the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

  • 1 Pet 1:16
    68%

    16Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

  • Ps 119:142
    68%

    142¶ Thy righteousness [is] an everlasting righteousness, and thy law [is] the truth.

  • 1 John 3:4
    68%

    4¶ Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

  • Heb 7:18
    68%

    18For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

  • Rom 13:9-10
    2 verses
    68%

    9For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

    10Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the law.

  • Rom 4:15
    67%

    15Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, [there is] no transgression.

  • Ps 111:7
    67%

    7The works of his hands [are] verity and judgment; all his commandments [are] sure.

  • Gal 3:11-12
    2 verses
    67%

    11But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, [it is] evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

    12And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

  • Matt 19:17
    67%

    17And he said unto him, ‹Why callest thou me good?› [there is] ‹none good but one,› [that is], ‹God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.›

  • Jas 2:10-11
    2 verses
    67%

    10For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one [point], he is guilty of all.

    11For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

  • Rom 10:5
    67%

    5For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

  • Rom 2:2
    66%

    2But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.

  • Deut 6:25
    66%

    25And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.

  • Ps 145:17
    66%

    17The LORD [is] righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.