Romans 7:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ So I find it to be a law (rule of action of my being) that when I want to do what is right and good, evil is ever present with me and I am subject to its insistent demands.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And so, I discover the law, by wanting to do good within myself, though evil lies close beside me.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ I find then a law, that when I have a will to do good, evil is present with me.

Romans 7:21 Cross References

Psalm 119:133

Order my footsteps in thy word; And let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

Psalm 119:37

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, And quicken me in thy ways.

Psalm 40:12

For innumerable evils have compassed me about, Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of mine head, and my heart hath failed me.

Psalm 65:3

Iniquities prevail against me: As for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.

Luke 4:1

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness

John 8:34

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Every one that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin.

Romans 6:12

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:

Romans 6:14

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.

Romans 7:23

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.

Romans 7:25

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself with the mind serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

Romans 8:2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

Hebrews 2:17

Wherefore it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

Hebrews 4:15

For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

2 Peter 2:19

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.