Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

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

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.

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.

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 I do what I have no mind to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me. 21 So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me. 22 In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,

Cross References

Romans 7:23

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.

Romans 8:2

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

2 Chronicles 30:18-19

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

Psalm 19:12-13

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

Psalm 40:12

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.

Psalm 65:3

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

Psalm 119:37

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

Psalm 119:133

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

Isaiah 6:5-7

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.

Zechariah 3:1-4

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.

Luke 4:1

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

John 8:34

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

Romans 6:12

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;

Romans 6:14

For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.

Romans 7:25

I give praise to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with my mind I am a servant to the law of God, but with my flesh to the law of sin.

Ephesians 6:11-13

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.

Hebrews 2:17

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.

Hebrews 4:15

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.

2 Peter 2:19

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.

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