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19 For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practise the evil that I do not want to do. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one that does it, but it is the sin that lives in me. 21 So I discover this law:[a](A) When I want to do what is good,[b] evil is present with me.

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  1. 7:21 Or principle
  2. 7:21 Or I find with respect to the law that when I want to do good

19 I don’t do the good that I want to do, but I do the evil that I don’t want to do. 20 But if I do the very thing that I don’t want to do, then I’m not the one doing it anymore. Instead, it is sin that lives in me that is doing it.

21 So I find that, as a rule, when I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me.

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