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Romans 7:19-25
New American Standard Bible
Romans 7:19-25
New American Standard Bible
19 For (A)the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20 But if I do the very thing I do not want, (B)I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that dwells in me.
21 I find then (C)the [a]principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. 22 For I joyfully agree with the law of God [b]in (D)the inner person, 23 but I see (E)a different law in [c]the parts of my body waging war against the (F)law of my mind, and making me a prisoner [d]of (G)the law of sin, the law which is in [e]my body’s parts. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from [f](H)the body of this (I)death? 25 (J)Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh (K)the law of sin.
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- Romans 7:21 Lit law
- Romans 7:22 Or with respect to
- Romans 7:23 Lit my parts waging
- Romans 7:23 Lit in
- Romans 7:23 Lit my parts
- Romans 7:24 Or this body of death
Romans 7:19-25
New International Version
Romans 7:19-25
New International Version
19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.(A) 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.(B)
21 So I find this law at work:(C) Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being(D) I delight in God’s law;(E) 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war(F) against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin(G) at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?(H) 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!(I)
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law,(J) but in my sinful nature[a] a slave to the law of sin.(K)
Footnotes
- Romans 7:25 Or in the flesh
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