Romans 7:21

New International Reader's Version

Here is the law I find working in me. When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

Cross References

Psalm 119:133

Teach me how to live as you have promised. Don’t let any sin be my master.

Psalm 119:37

Turn my eyes away from things that are worthless. Keep me alive as you have promised.

Psalm 40:12

There are more troubles all around me than I can count. My sins have caught up with me, and I can’t see any longer. My sins are more than the hairs of my head. I have lost all hope.

Psalm 65:3

When our sins became too much for us, you forgave our lawless acts.

Luke 4:1

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan River. The Spirit led him into the desert.

John 8:34

Jesus replied, “What I’m about to tell you is true. Everyone who sins is a slave of sin.

Romans 6:12

So don’t let sin rule your body, which is going to die. Don’t obey its evil desires.

Romans 6:14

Sin will no longer control you like a master. That’s because the law does not rule you. God’s grace has set you free.

Romans 7:23

But I see another law working in me. It fights against the law of my mind. It makes me a prisoner of the law of sin. That law controls me.

Romans 7:25

I give thanks to God who saves me. He saves me through Jesus Christ our Lord. So in my mind I am a slave to God’s law. But sin controls my desires. So I am a slave to the law of sin.

Romans 8:2

Because of what Christ Jesus has done, you are free. You are now controlled by the law of the Holy Spirit who gives you life. The law of the Spirit frees you from the law of sin that brings death.

Hebrews 2:17

So he had to be made like people, fully human in every way. Then he could serve God as a kind and faithful high priest. And then he could pay for the sins of the people by dying for them.

Hebrews 4:15

We have a high priest who can feel it when we are weak and hurting. We have a high priest who has been tempted in every way, just as we are. But he did not sin.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise to give freedom to these new believers. But they themselves are slaves to sinful living. That’s because “people are slaves to anything that controls them.”