Romans 7:16

World English Bible (2000)

But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 7:12 : 12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
  • Rom 7:14 : 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man,
  • 1 Tim 1:8 : 8 But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully,
  • Ps 119:127-128 : 127 Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold. 128 Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way. PEY

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    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

    8But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

    9I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

    10The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;

    11for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

    12Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

    13Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

    14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

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    17So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

    18For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

    19For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice.

    20But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

    21I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

    22For I delight in God's law after the inward man,

    23but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

    24What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

    25I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.

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    17But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

    18For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.

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    15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

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