But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
Parallel translations
- KJV If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
- BSB And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.
- NKJV If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
- NASB However, if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, that the Law is good.
- NLT But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Rom 7:12Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
- 1 Tim 1:8But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully,
- Rom 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
- Rom 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
- Ps 119:127–128Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.
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