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

and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that is in my members.

Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;

for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;

Also -- from presumptuous ones keep back Thy servant, Let them not rule over me, Then am I perfect, And declared innocent of much transgression,

My steps establish by Thy saying, And any iniquity doth not rule over me.

Jesus answered them, 'Verily, verily, I say to you -- Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,

put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil,

liberty to them promising, themselves being servants of the corruption, for by whom any one hath been overcome, to this one also he hath been brought to servitude,

Evil

for a multitude of the people, many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, have not been cleansed, but have eaten the passover otherwise than it is written; but Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, 'Jehovah, who is good, doth receive atonement for every one

Errors! who doth understand? From hidden ones declare me innocent,

For compassed me have evils innumerable, Overtaken me have mine iniquities, And I have not been able to see; They have been more than the hairs of my head, And my heart hath forsaken me.

Matters of iniquities were mightier than I, Our transgressions -- Thou dost cover them.

Remove mine eyes from seeing vanity, In Thy way quicken Thou me.

And I say, 'Woe to me, for I have been silent, For a man -- unclean of lips am I, And in midst of a people unclean of lips I am dwelling, Because the King, Jehovah of Hosts, have my eyes seen.'

And he sheweth me Joshua the high priest standing before the messenger of Jehovah, and the Adversary standing at his right hand, to be an adversary to him.

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from the Jordan, and was brought in the Spirit to the wilderness,

wherefore it did behove him in all things to be made like to the brethren, that he might become a kind and stedfast chief-priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people,

for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but one tempted in all things in like manner -- apart from sin;