Romans 7:21

Paul discerns a principle: when he wants to do good, evil is right there with him. Sin is an ever-present reality in his experience.

Cross-references · 19

• Eph 6:11–13Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
• Rom 7:23but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
• Rom 6:14For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
• Rom 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
• Ps 119:133Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.
• Heb 2:17Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.
• Rom 6:12Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
• Zech 3:1–4He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before Yahweh’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
• Ps 119:37Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
• John 8:34Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.
• Heb 4:15For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
• 2 Pet 2:19promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
• Ps 65:3Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions.
• Luke 4:1Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness
• Ps 19:12–13Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
• Ps 40:12For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
• Isa 6:5–7Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”
• Rom 7:25I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s law.
• 2 Chr 30:18–19For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover other than the way it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Yahweh pardon everyone

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