Romans 7:19
For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!
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- Rom 7:15 : 15 For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want– instead, I do what I hate.
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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.
- Rom 7:7-1812 verses91%
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.
16 But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good.
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.
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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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20 For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.
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17 So whoever knows what is good to do and does not do it is guilty of sin.
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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.
- Gal 2:18-192 verses69%
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.
- Mark 7:20-212 verses69%
20 He said,“What comes out of a person defiles him.
21 For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
- Matt 7:17-182 verses69%
17 In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.
18 A good tree is not able to bear bad fruit, nor a bad tree to bear good fruit.
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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.
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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?
8 And why not say,“Let us do evil so that good may come of it”?– as some who slander us allege that we say.(Their condemnation is deserved!)
9 The Condemnation of the World What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,
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23 All these evils come from within and defile a person.”
- Rom 8:2-32 verses68%
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,
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20 For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
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12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,
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1 The Condemnation of the Moralist Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge someone else. For on whatever grounds you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.
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7 Now we pray to God that you may not do anything wrong, not so that we may appear to have passed the test, but so that you may do what is right even if we may appear to have failed the test.
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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 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
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2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
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12 All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one.”
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20 They repay me evil for the good I have done; though I have tried to do good to them, they hurl accusations at me.
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22 Now if I am to go on living in the body, this will mean productive work for me, yet I don’t know which I prefer:
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20 If I have sinned– what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you?
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20 For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.
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19 For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
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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.