Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Consequently I find the law in my wanting to do good, that evil is present in me.
New American Standard Bible
I find then
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:
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.
American Standard Version
I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is present.
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,
Themes
Flesh » What dwells in the flesh
Good and evil » Subjective conflict between
Law » Christ being the end of the law
Mind » What wars against the mind
Stoicism » Paul teaches » That the "law of the mind" is at war with the "law of the members,"
Topics
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References
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 7:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Internal Conflict With Sin
20 But if I do this that I do not want, I no longer perform it, but sin dwelling in me. 21 Consequently I find the law in my wanting to do good, that evil is present in me. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man,
Cross References
Romans 7:23
but I see a different law in my body-parts, warring against the law of my mind, and taking me captive in the law of sin, which is in my body-parts.
Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus freed me 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 they ate the Passover otherwise than it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pa
Psalm 19:12-13
Who can discern [his] errors? Clear thou me from hidden [faults].
Psalm 40:12
for innumerable evils have encompassed me around. My 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 has failed me.
Psalm 65:3
Iniquities prevail against me. As for our transgressions, thou will forgive them.
Psalm 119:37
Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity, and enliven 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 I said, 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 my eyes have seen the King, LORD of hosts.
Zechariah 3:1-4
And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the agent of LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
Luke 4:1
And Jesus, full of Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
John 8:34
Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, that every man who does the sin is a bondman of the sin.
Romans 6:12
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body in order to obey it, in its lusts.
Romans 6:14
for sin will 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 in the mind indeed serve a law of God, but in the flesh a law of sin.
Ephesians 6:11-13
Put on the full armor of God to enable you to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Hebrews 2:17
Therefore he was obligated to be made like his brothers in accordance with all things, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things toward God, in order to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
Hebrews 4:15
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but who was tempted in all things in the same way, without sin.
2 Peter 2:19
promising them freedom, while they themselves are bondmen of corruption, for by what any man has been overcome, of this he has also been enslaved.