Romans 7:16
But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good.
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- Rom 7:12 : 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
- Rom 7:14 : 14 For we know that the law is spiritual– but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.
- Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.
- 1 Tim 1:8 : 8 But we know that the law is good if someone uses it legitimately,
- Ps 119:127-128 : 127 For this reason I love your commands more than gold, even purest gold. 128 For this reason I carefully follow all your precepts. I hate all deceitful actions.
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- Rom 7:7-159 verses89%
7 What 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.”
8 But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
9 And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive
10 and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!
11 For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.
12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
13 Did 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.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual– but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.
15 For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want– instead, I do what I hate.
- Rom 7:17-259 verses88%
17 But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.
18 For 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.
19 For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!
20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.
21 So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.
23 But 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.
24 Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
25 Thanks 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.
- Gal 2:17-193 verses71%
17 But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not!
18 But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God’s law.
19 For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.
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17 For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward. But if I do it unwillingly, I am entrusted with a responsibility.
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8 But we know that the law is good if someone uses it legitimately,
- Gal 5:16-172 verses70%
16 But I say, live by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.
17 For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to each other, so that you cannot do what you want.
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12 Flee Sexual Immorality“All things are lawful for me”– but not everything is beneficial.“All things are lawful for me”– but I will not be controlled by anything.
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17 So whoever knows what is good to do and does not do it is guilty of sin.
- Rom 8:2-32 verses70%
2 For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
3 For 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,
- Rom 2:14-152 verses70%
14 For 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.
15 They show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend them,
- 1 Cor 4:3-42 verses70%
3 So for me, it is a minor matter that I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.
4 For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not acquitted because of this. The one who judges me is the Lord.
- Rom 6:15-162 verses69%
15 The Believer’s Enslavement to God’s Righteousness What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!
16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?
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7 For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?
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11 For 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.
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17 If anyone wants to do God’s will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.
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5 For 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.
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8 I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts.”
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6 I say this as a concession, not as a command.
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1 The Believer’s Freedom from Sin’s Domination What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase?
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4 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.
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23 Live to Glorify God“Everything is lawful,” but not everything is beneficial.“Everything is lawful,” but not everything builds others up.
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12 For if the eagerness is present, the gift itself is acceptable according to whatever one has, not according to what he does not have.
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10 But if that nation does what displeases me and does not obey me, then I will cancel the good I promised to do to it.
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1 Israel’s Rejection Considered I am telling the truth in Christ(I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit–
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14 However, without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your good deed would not be out of compulsion, but from your own willingness.
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29 I do not mean yours but the other person’s. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?
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8 Am I saying these things only on the basis of common sense, or does the law not say this as well?