Romans 7:12

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So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Tim 1:8 : 8 But we know that the law is good if someone uses it legitimately,
  • Ps 119:137 : 137 צ(Tsade) You are just, O LORD, and your judgments are fair.
  • Ps 119:140 : 140 Your word is absolutely pure, and your servant loves it!
  • Ps 119:172 : 172 May my tongue sing about your instructions, for all your commands are just.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.
  • Rom 7:14 : 14 For we know that the law is spiritual– but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.
  • Rom 7:16 : 16 But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good.
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God– what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
  • Deut 4:8 : 8 And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this whole law that I am about to share with you today?
  • Deut 10:12 : 12 An Exhortation to Love Both God and People Now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you except to revere him, to obey all his commandments, to love him, to serve him with all your mind and being,
  • Neh 9:13 : 13 “You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You provided them with just judgments, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.
  • Ps 19:7-9 : 7 The law of the LORD is perfect and preserves one’s life. The rules set down by the LORD are reliable and impart wisdom to the inexperienced. 8 The LORD’s precepts are fair and make one joyful. The LORD’s commands are pure and give insight for life. 9 The commands to fear the LORD are right and endure forever. The judgments given by the LORD are trustworthy and absolutely just. 10 They are of greater value than gold, than even a great amount of pure gold; they bring greater delight than honey, than even the sweetest honey from a honeycomb. 11 Yes, your servant finds moral guidance there; those who obey them receive a rich reward. 12 Who can know all his errors? Please do not punish me for sins I am unaware of.
  • Ps 119:38 : 38 Confirm to your servant your promise, which you made to the one who honors you.
  • Ps 119:86 : 86 All your commands are reliable. I am pursued without reason. Help me!
  • Ps 119:127 : 127 For this reason I love your commands more than gold, even purest gold.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 7:13-25
    13 verses
    83%

    13Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

    14For we know that the law is spiritual– but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

    15For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want– instead, I do what I hate.

    16But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good.

    17But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.

    18For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.

    19For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!

    20Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.

    21So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

    22For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.

    23But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

    24Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

    25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

  • Rom 7:5-11
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    78%

    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

    6But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said,“Do not covet.”

    8But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

    9And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive

    10and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!

    11For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.

  • 1 Tim 1:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8But we know that the law is good if someone uses it legitimately,

    9realizing that law is not intended for a righteous person, but for lawless and rebellious people, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,

  • Rom 3:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

    21But now apart from the law the righteousness of God(although it is attested by the law and the prophets) has been disclosed–

  • Rom 8:2-4
    3 verses
    71%

    2For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.

    3For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

    4so that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

  • Ps 19:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7The law of the LORD is perfect and preserves one’s life. The rules set down by the LORD are reliable and impart wisdom to the inexperienced.

    8The LORD’s precepts are fair and make one joyful. The LORD’s commands are pure and give insight for life.

  • Rom 2:12-14
    3 verses
    69%

    12For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

    13For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.

    14For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

  • Gal 3:21
    69%

    21Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.

  • 1 Pet 1:16
    68%

    16for it is written,“You shall be holy, because I am holy.”

  • Ps 119:142
    68%

    142Your justice endures, and your law is reliable.

  • 1 John 3:4
    68%

    4Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.

  • Heb 7:18
    68%

    18On the one hand a former command is set aside because it is weak and useless,

  • Rom 13:9-10
    2 verses
    68%

    9For the commandments,“Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet,”(and if there is any other commandment) are summed up in this,“Love your neighbor as yourself.”

    10Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

  • Rom 4:15
    67%

    15For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.

  • Ps 111:7
    67%

    7His acts are characterized by faithfulness and justice; all his precepts are reliable.

  • Gal 3:11-12
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    67%

    11Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith.

    12But the law is not based on faith, but the one who does the works of the law will live by them.

  • Matt 19:17
    67%

    17He said to him,“Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

  • Jas 2:10-11
    2 verses
    67%

    10For the one who obeys the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

    11For he who said,“Do not commit adultery,” also said,“Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a violator of the law.

  • Rom 10:5
    67%

    5For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law:“The one who does these things will live by them.”

  • Rom 2:2
    66%

    2Now we know that God’s judgment is in accordance with truth against those who practice such things.

  • Deut 6:25
    66%

    25We will be innocent if we carefully keep all these commandments before the LORD our God, just as he demands.”

  • Ps 145:17
    66%

    17The LORD is just in all his actions, and exhibits love in all he does.