Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is present.

New American Standard Bible

I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.

King James Version

I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

Holman Bible

So I discover this principle: When I want to do what is good, evil is with me.

International Standard Version

So I find this to be a principle: when I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me.

A Conservative Version

Consequently I find the law in my wanting to do good, that evil is present in me.

Amplified

So I find it to be the law [of my inner self], that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.

An Understandable Version

So, I find this principle [at work]: [Although] I want to do what is good, evil is [always] present [and often wins out].

Anderson New Testament

I find, then, this law: That, when I wish to do good, evil is present with me.

Bible in Basic English

So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me.

Common New Testament

So I find it to be a law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

Daniel Mace New Testament

I find then a settled custom, that evil is objected in my way whenever I have a mind to act well:

Darby Translation

I find then the law upon me who will to practise what is right, that with me evil is there.

Godbey New Testament

Then I find a law, that, to me wishing to do that which is beautiful, that the evil is present with me:

Goodspeed New Testament

I find the law to be that I who want to do right am dogged by what is wrong.

John Wesley New Testament

I find then a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.

Julia Smith Translation

I find therefore a law to me, wishing to do good, that evil lies near me.

King James 2000

I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Consequently, I find the principle with me, the one who wants to do good, that evil is present with me.

Modern King James verseion

I find then a law: when I will to do the right, evil is present with me.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I find then, by the law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.

Moffatt New Testament

So this is my experience of the Law: I want to do what is right, but wrong is all I can manage;

Montgomery New Testament

I find, then, this law, that when I intend to do good, evil is ever present with me.

NET Bible

So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

New Heart English Bible

I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

Noyes New Testament

I find then that there is a law to me, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.

Sawyer New Testament

I find therefore the law, that when I wish to do good evil is present with me;

The Emphasized Bible

Hence, I find the law, to me who wish to be doing the right, that, unto me, the wrong lieth near:

Thomas Haweis New Testament

I find then a law, that, when I wish to do good, evil is presented to me.

Twentieth Century New Testament

This, then, is the law that I find-When I want to do right, wrong presents itself!

Webster

I find then a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.

Weymouth New Testament

I find therefore the law of my nature to be that when I desire to do what is right, evil is lying in ambush for me.

Williams New Testament

So I find this law: When I want to do right, the wrong is always in my way.

World English Bible

I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

Worrell New Testament

Consequently, I find the law, that, when I wish to do good, evil is present.

Worsley New Testament

I find then a kind of law, that when I would do good, evil besets me.

Youngs Literal Translation

I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, with me the evil is present,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
I find
εὑρίσκω 
heurisko 
find,
Usage: 130

ἄρα 
Ara 
therefore , so then , now therefore , then , wherefore , haply , not tr,
Usage: 35

a law
νόμος 
Nomos 
law
Usage: 179

ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

θέλω ἐθέλω 
thelo 
will/would, will/would have, desire, desirous, list, to will,
Usage: 136

I
ἐμοί 
Emoi 
me, I, mine, my, 9
Usage: 58

θέλω ἐθέλω 
thelo 
will/would, will/would have, desire, desirous, list, to will,
Usage: 136

do
ποιέω 
Poieo 
do, make, bring forth, commit, cause, work, show, bear, keep, fulfil, deal, perform, not tr, , vr do
Usage: 372

καλός 
Kalos 
Usage: 62

κακός 
Kakos 
Usage: 46

is present
παράκειμαι 
Parakeimai 
be present
Usage: 2

Context Readings

Internal Conflict With Sin

20 But if what I would not, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me. 21 I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is present. 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:



Cross References

Romans 7:23

but 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.

Romans 8:2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

2 Chronicles 30:18-19

For 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 is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, The good Jehovah pardon every one

Psalm 19:12-13

Who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults .

Psalm 40:12

For innumerable evils have compassed me about; Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart hath failed me.

Psalm 65:3

Iniquities prevail against me: As for our transgressions, thou wilt forgive them.

Psalm 119:37

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, And quicken me in thy ways.

Psalm 119:133

Establish my footsteps in thy word; And let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

Isaiah 6:5-7

Then 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, Jehovah of hosts.

Zechariah 3:1-4

And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.

Luke 4:1

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

John 8:34

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Every one that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin.

Romans 6:12

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:

Romans 6:14

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.

Romans 7:25

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I of myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

Ephesians 6:11-13

Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Hebrews 2:17

Wherefore it behooved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, 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 have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

2 Peter 2:19

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.

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