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 armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
• Rom 7:23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
• Rom 6:14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
• Rom 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
• Ps 119:133Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
• Heb 2:17Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
• Rom 6:12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
• Zech 3:1–4And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
• Ps 119:37Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
• John 8:34Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
• Heb 4:15For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
• 2 Pet 2:19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
• Ps 65:3Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
• Luke 4:1And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
• Ps 19:12–13Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
• Ps 40:12For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
• Isa 6:5–7Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
• Rom 7:25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
• 2 Chr 30:18–19For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one

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