Romans 7:21

Internal Conflict With Sin

²⁰ But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. ²¹ I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. ²² For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,

Do Good

In Me

What is Good

Romans 7:23

but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.

Romans 8:2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

2 Chronicles 30:18-19

For a multitude of the people, even many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than prescribed. For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May the good Lord pardon

Psalm 19:12-13

Who can discern his errors? Acquit me of hidden faults.

Psalm 40:12

For evils beyond number have surrounded me;
My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see;
They are more numerous than the hairs of my head,
And my heart has failed me.

Psalm 65:3

Iniquities prevail against me;
As for our transgressions, You forgive them.

Psalm 119:37

Turn away my eyes from looking at vanity,
And revive me in Your ways.

Psalm 119:133

Establish my footsteps in Your word,
And do not let any iniquity have dominion over me.

Isaiah 6:5-7

Then I said,
“Woe is me, for I am ruined!
Because I am a man of unclean lips,
And I live among a people of unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.”

Zechariah 3:1-4

Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.

Luke 4:1

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led around by the Spirit in the wilderness

John 8:34

Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.

Romans 6:12

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,

Romans 6:14

For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

Romans 7:25

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.

Ephesians 6:11-13

Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.

Hebrews 2:17

Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

Hebrews 4:15

For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.

2 Peter 2:19

promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved.