Romans 7:21

Easy To Read Version

So I have learned this rule: When I want to do good, evil is there with me.

Cross References

Psalm 119:133

Lord, guide me like you promised.\par Don’t let anything bad happen to me.\par

Psalm 119:37

Lord, don’t let me look at worthless things.\par Help me live your way.\par

Psalm 40:12

Evil people have gathered around me.\par They are too many to count!\par My sins have caught me,\par and I can’t escape them.\par They are more than the hairs on my head.\par I have lost my courage.\par

Psalm 65:3

When our sins become too heavy for us,\par you take away those sins.\par

Luke 4:1

Jesus returned from the Jordan River. He was full of the Holy Spirit. {\cf2\super [61]} The Spirit led Jesus into the desert.

John 8:34

Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth. Every person that sins is a slave. Sin is his master.

Romans 6:12

But don’t let sin control you in your life here on earth. You must not be ruled by the things your sinful self makes you want to do.

Romans 6:14

Sin will not be your master. Why? Because you are not under law. You now live under God’s grace (kindness).

Romans 7:23

But I see another law working in my body. That law makes war against the law that my mind accepts. That other law working in my body is the law of sin, and that law makes me its prisoner.

Romans 7:25

God \{will save me\}! I thank him \{for his salvation\} through Jesus Christ our Lord!

Romans 8:2

Why? Because in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit {\cf2\super [58]} that brings life made you {\cf2\super [59]} free. It made you {\cf2\super [60]} free from the law that brings sin and death.

Hebrews 2:17

For this reason Jesus had to be made like us his brothers and sisters in every way. Jesus became like people so that he could be their merciful and faithful high priest {\cf2\super [14]} in service to God. Then Jesus could bring forgiveness for the people’s sins.

2 Peter 2:19

These false teachers promise that those people will have freedom. But the false teachers themselves are not free. They are slaves of things that will be destroyed. A person is a slave to the thing that controls him.