Romans 7:21

New Century Version

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

Cross References

Psalm 119:133

Guide my steps as you promised; don’t let any sin control me.

Psalm 119:37

Keep me from looking at worthless things. Let me live by your word.

Psalm 40:12

Troubles have surrounded me; there are too many to count. My sins have caught me so that I cannot see a way to escape. I have more sins than hairs on my head, and I have lost my courage.

Psalm 65:3

Our guilt overwhelms us, but you forgive our sins.

Luke 4:1

Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River. The Spirit led Jesus into the desert

John 8:34

Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, everyone who lives in sin is a slave to sin.

Romans 6:12

So, do not let sin control your life here on earth so that you do what your sinful self wants to do.

Romans 6:14

Sin will not be your master, because you are not under law but under God’s grace.

Romans 7:23

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

Romans 7:25

I thank God for saving me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So in my mind I am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful self I am a slave to the law of sin.

Romans 8:2

Through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit that brings life made you free from the law that brings sin and death.

Hebrews 2:17

For this reason Jesus had to be made like his brothers and sisters in every way so he could be their merciful and faithful high priest in service to God. Then Jesus could die in their place to take away their sins.

Hebrews 4:15

For our high priest is able to understand our weaknesses. He was tempted in every way that we are, but he did not sin.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are not free. They are slaves of things that will be destroyed. For people are slaves of anything that controls them.