Romans 7:20
Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.
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- Rom 7:17 : 17 But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.
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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.
6 But 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.
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.
19 For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!
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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.
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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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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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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,
4 so 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.
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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.
20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
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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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17 So whoever knows what is good to do and does not do it is guilty of sin.
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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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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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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?
2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
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4 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.
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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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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!
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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,
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7 (For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)
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8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please 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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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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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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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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10 But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.
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8 If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
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23 All these evils come from within and defile a person.”