Verse 16
Romans 7:16
Literal Standard Version
16
And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the Law that it is good,
Original Language Text
greek
εἰ δὲ ὃ οὐ θέλω τοῦτο ποιῶ, σύμφημι τῷ νόμῳ ὅτι καλός.
English Translation
But if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law that it is good.
AI translation from greek via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 7 Context
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Are you ignorant, brothers—for to those knowing law I speak—that the law has lordship over the man a...
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For the married woman to the living husband has been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she h...
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so then, the husband being alive, she will be called an adulteress if she may become another man’s;...
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So that, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your be...
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for when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, that are through the Law, were working in our m...
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and now we have ceased from the Law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in...
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What, then, will we say? The Law is sin? Let it not be! But I did not know sin except through law, f...
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“You will not covet”; and sin having received an opportunity, through the command, worked in me all...
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And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, sin revived, and I died;
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and the command that is for life, this was found by me for death;
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for sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, deceived me, and through it, slew me,
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so that the Law, indeed, is holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.
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That which is good then, has it become death to me? Let it not be! But sin, that it might appear sin...
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For we have known that the Law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by sin;
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for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practice, but what I hate,...
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And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the Law that it is good,
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and now it is no longer I that work it, but sin dwelling in me,
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for I have known that there does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present...
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for the good that I will, I do not do; but the evil that I do not will, this I practice.
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And if what I do not will, this I do, it is no longer I that work it, but sin that is dwelling in me...
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I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, the evil is present with me,
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for I delight in the Law of God (Elohim) according to the inward man,
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and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into cap...
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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, I myself indeed serve the Law...
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