Romans 7:19
For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice.
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- Rom 7:15 : 15 For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
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- Rom 7:20-256 verses92%
20 But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
21 I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man,
23 but 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.
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
25 I 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.
- Rom 7:7-1812 verses91%
7 What 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."
8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;
11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
13 Did 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.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
15 For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
16 But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
18 For 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.
- Gal 5:16-172 verses75%
16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
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20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.
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17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.
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5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
- Gal 2:18-192 verses69%
18 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.
19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
- Mark 7:20-212 verses69%
20 He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.
21 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
- Matt 7:17-182 verses69%
17 Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.
18 A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.
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4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
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7 For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
8 Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned.
9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.
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23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."
- Rom 8:2-32 verses68%
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
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20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
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12 Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
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1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.
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7 Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we are as reprobate.
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17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
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8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.
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2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
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12 They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as one."
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20 They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
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22 But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don't know what I will choose.
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20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?
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20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
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19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
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12 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything.