Romans 7:21

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Summary

Romans 7:21

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

A law

Evil

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A law

But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.

For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;

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

Keep your servant back from sins of pride; let them not have rule over me: then will I be upright and free from great sin.

Let my steps be guided by your word; and let not sin have control over me.

And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin.

Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.

Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.

Evil

For a great number of the people from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not made themselves clean, but they took the Passover meal, though not in the right way. For Hezekiah had made prayer for them, saying, May the good Lord have mercy on everyone

Who has full knowledge of his errors? make me clean from secret evil.

For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away.

Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.

Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.

And he let me see Joshua, the high priest, in his place before the angel of the Lord, and the Satan at his right hand ready to take up a cause against him.

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, came back from the Jordan, and was guided by the Spirit in the waste land

Because of this it was necessary for him to be made like his brothers in every way, so that he might be a high priest full of mercy and keeping faith in everything to do with God, making offerings for the sins of the people.

For we have not a high priest who is not able to be touched by the feelings of our feeble flesh; but we have one who has been tested in all points as we ourselves are tested, but without sin.