Verse 21
Romans 7:21
GOD'S WORD Translation
21
I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
Original Language Text
greek
Εὑρίσκω ἄρα τὸν νόμον τῷ θέλοντι ἐμοὶ ποιεῖν τὸ καλὸν ὅτι ἐμοὶ τὸ κακὸν παράκειται·
English Translation
I find then the law that when I want to do good, evil lies close at hand.
AI translation from greek via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 7 Context
1
Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a...
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2
For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband d...
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3
So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress...
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4
Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you woul...
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5
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members...
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6
But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we...
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7
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except...
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8
But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart f...
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9
I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
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10
The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;
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for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
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12
Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
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13
Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to...
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14
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
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15
For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I...
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16
But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
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17
So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
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For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, bu...
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19
For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.
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20
But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
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21
I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
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For I delight in God (Elohim)’s law after the inward man,
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23
but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into ca...
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24
What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
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I thank God (Elohim) through Yashua (Jesus) Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve...
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