Romans 7:21
Good News Translation
So I find that this law is at work: when I want to do what is good, what is evil is the only choice I have.

New Revised Standard Version
So I find it to be a law that when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand.

Contemporary English Version
The Law has shown me that something in me keeps me from doing what I know is right.

New American Bible
So, then, I discover the principle that when I want to do right, evil is at hand.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I find then a law, that when I have a will to do good, evil is present with me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

a law.

Romans 7:23 But I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind and captivating me in the law of sin that is in my members.

Romans 6:12,14 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof. . . .

Romans 8:2 For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath delivered me from the law of sin and of death.

Psalm 19:13 And from those of others spare thy servant. If they shall have no dominion over me, then shall I be without spot: and I shall be cleansed from the greatest sin.

Psalm 119:133 Direct my steps according to thy word: and let no iniquity have dominion over me.

John 8:34 Jesus answered them: Amen, amen, I say unto you that whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

Ephesians 6:11-13 Put you on the armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the deceits of the devil. . . .

2 Peter 2:19 Promising them liberty, whereas they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom a man is overcome, of the same also he is the slave.

evil.

2 Chronicles 30:18,19 For a great part of the people from Ephraim, and Manasses, and Issachar, and Zabulon, that had not been sanctified, ate the phase otherwise than it is written: and Ezechias prayed for them, saying: The Lord who is good will shew mercy, . . .

Psalm 19:12 Who can understand sins? from my secret ones cleanse me, O Lord:

Psalm 40:12 For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.

Psalm 65:3 The words of the wicked have prevailed over us: and thou wilt pardon our transgressions.

Psalm 119:37 Turn away my eyes that they may not behold vanity: quicken me in thy way.

Isaiah 6:5-7 And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts. . . .

Zechariah 3:1-4 And the Lord shewed me Jesus the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord: and Satan stood on his right hand to be his adversary. . . .

Luke 4:1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from the Jordan and was led the by the spirit into the desert,

Hebrews 2:17 Wherefore, it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest before God, that he might be a propitiation for the sins of the people.

Hebrews 4:15 For we have not a high priest who cannot have compassion on our infirmities: but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin.

Context
Struggling with Sin
20Now if I do that which I will not, it is no more I that do it: but sin that dwelleth in me. 21I find then a law, that when I have a will to do good, evil is present with me. 22For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward man:…
Cross References
Romans 7:23
But I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind and captivating me in the law of sin that is in my members.

Romans 7:25
The grace of God, by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, 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, hath delivered me from the law of sin and of death.

Romans 7:20
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