Romans 7:21

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Rom 7:23 : 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.
  • Rom 6:14 : 14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
  • Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
  • Eph 6:11-13 : 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore, put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.
  • Heb 2:17 : 17 Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.
  • Heb 4:15 : 15 For we don't have a high priest who can't be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
  • Rom 7:25 : 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.
  • 2 Chr 30:18-19 : 18 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, "May the good Yahweh pardon everyone 19 who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, even if they aren't clean according to the purification of the sanctuary."
  • Ps 19:12-13 : 12 Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors. 13 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
  • Ps 40:12 : 12 For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
  • Ps 65:3 : 3 Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions.
  • Ps 119:37 : 37 Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
  • Ps 119:133 : 133 Establish my footsteps in your word. Don't let any iniquity have dominion over me.
  • Isa 6:5-7 : 5 Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!" 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. 7 He touched my mouth with it, and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven."
  • Zech 3:1-4 : 1 He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Yahweh, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary. 2 Yahweh said to Satan, "Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn't this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?" 3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel. 4 He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, "Take the filthy garments off of him." To him he said, "Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing."
  • Luke 4:1 : 1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness
  • John 8:34 : 34 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.
  • Rom 6:12 : 12 Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

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  • Rom 7:7-20
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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.

    15For 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.

    16But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

    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.

  • Rom 7:22-25
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    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.

  • Rom 7:5
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    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

  • Eccl 7:20
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    20Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.

  • Rom 8:2-4
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    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

    3For 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;

    4that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

  • Gal 5:17
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    17For 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.

  • Mark 7:21
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    21For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

  • Rom 3:20
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    20Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • Gal 2:17-19
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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.

    19For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

  • Jas 4:17
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    17To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

  • Rom 2:14-15
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    14(for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

    15in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

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    17Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

  • Job 30:26
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    26When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.

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    7For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

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    20They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

  • 1 Tim 1:8
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    8But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully,

  • Mark 7:23
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    23All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."

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    4For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

  • Rom 2:1-2
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    1Therefore 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.

    2We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

  • Rom 12:21
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    21Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

  • Ps 40:8
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    8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart."

  • 1 John 3:4
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    4Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

  • Rom 5:20
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    20The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

  • Rom 3:9
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    9What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

  • Rom 8:8
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    8Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

  • Rom 6:1
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    1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

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    2that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

  • Jas 1:15
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    15Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.