For I know that in me, that is to say, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing. To will is present with me: but I find no means to perform that which is good.

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord: So then I myself in my mind serve the law of God, and in my flesh the law of sin.

And when the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was increased upon the earth, and that all the imagination and thoughts of his heart was only evil continually,

And the LORD smelled a sweet savour and said in his heart, "I will henceforth no more curse the earth for man's sake, for the imagination of man's heart is evil even from the very youth of him. Moreover I will not destroy from henceforth all that liveth as I have done.

Who can make it clean, that cometh from an unclean thing? Nobody.

Behold, I was born in wickedness, and in sin hath my mother conceived me.

That which is born of the flesh, is flesh. And that which is born of the spirit, is spirit.

For we ourselves also were in times past, unwise, disobedient, deceived, in danger to lusts, and to divers manners of voluptuousness, living in maliciousness and envy, full of hate, hating one another.

What is man, that he should be clean? What hath he, which is born of a woman, whereby he might be known to be righteous?

Away from me, ye wicked! I will keep the commandments of my God!

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, breaking of wedlock, whoredom, theft, false witness-bearing, blasphemy.

For from within even out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts: adultery, fornication, murder,

O that my ways were made so direct, that I might keep thy statutes!

I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou hast set my heart at liberty.

Behold, my delight is in thy commandments; O quicken me in thy righteousness.

Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy commandments.

I go astray, like a sheep that is lost; O seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy commandments.

If ye then which are evil, can give good gifts unto your children: How much more shall the father of heaven give a holy spirit to them, that desire it of him?"

For when we were in the flesh, the lusts of sin which were stirred up by the law, reigned in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.

because I know not what I do. For what I would, that do I not: but what I hate, that do I.

For I do not that good thing which I would: but that evil do I, which I would not.

For what the law could not do, inasmuch as it was weak because of the flesh - that performed God, and sent his son in the similitude of sinful flesh, and by sin damned sin in the flesh;

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. And make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts of it.

For the flesh lusteth contrary to the spirit, and the spirit contrary to the flesh. These are contrary one to the other, so that ye cannot do that which ye would.

The deeds of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, wantonness,

They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh, with the appetites and lusts.

And you hath he quickened also, that were dead in trespass and sin:

For it is God which worketh in you both the will and also the deed, even of good will.

Not as though I had already attained to it, either were already perfect: but I follow, if that I may comprehend that, wherein I am comprehended of Christ Jesus.

that he henceforward should live as much time as remaineth in the flesh, not after the lusts of men: but after the will of God.

But how may a man compared unto God be justified? Or, how can he be clean, that is born of a woman?

We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, stained with the flux of a woman: we fall every and each one as the leaf, for our sins carry us away like the wind.

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For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

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That in me

And when the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was increased upon the earth, and that all the imagination and thoughts of his heart was only evil continually,
And the LORD smelled a sweet savour and said in his heart, "I will henceforth no more curse the earth for man's sake, for the imagination of man's heart is evil even from the very youth of him. Moreover I will not destroy from henceforth all that liveth as I have done.
Who can make it clean, that cometh from an unclean thing? Nobody.
What is man, that he should be clean? What hath he, which is born of a woman, whereby he might be known to be righteous?
But how may a man compared unto God be justified? Or, how can he be clean, that is born of a woman?
Behold, I was born in wickedness, and in sin hath my mother conceived me.
We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, stained with the flux of a woman: we fall every and each one as the leaf, for our sins carry us away like the wind.
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, breaking of wedlock, whoredom, theft, false witness-bearing, blasphemy.
For from within even out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts: adultery, fornication, murder,
If ye then which are evil, can give good gifts unto your children: How much more shall the father of heaven give a holy spirit to them, that desire it of him?"
And you hath he quickened also, that were dead in trespass and sin:
For we ourselves also were in times past, unwise, disobedient, deceived, in danger to lusts, and to divers manners of voluptuousness, living in maliciousness and envy, full of hate, hating one another.
that he henceforward should live as much time as remaineth in the flesh, not after the lusts of men: but after the will of God.

In my

For when we were in the flesh, the lusts of sin which were stirred up by the law, reigned in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.
For what the law could not do, inasmuch as it was weak because of the flesh - that performed God, and sent his son in the similitude of sinful flesh, and by sin damned sin in the flesh;
but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. And make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts of it.
That which is born of the flesh, is flesh. And that which is born of the spirit, is spirit.
The deeds of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, wantonness,

For to will

because I know not what I do. For what I would, that do I not: but what I hate, that do I.
O that my ways were made so direct, that I might keep thy statutes!
For the flesh lusteth contrary to the spirit, and the spirit contrary to the flesh. These are contrary one to the other, so that ye cannot do that which ye would.
For it is God which worketh in you both the will and also the deed, even of good will.
Not as though I had already attained to it, either were already perfect: but I follow, if that I may comprehend that, wherein I am comprehended of Christ Jesus.
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