Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
I find then a law: when I will to do the right, evil is present with 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.
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.
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 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,"
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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 what I do not desire, it is no more I working it out, but sin dwelling in me. 21 I find then a law: when I will to do the right, evil is present with me. 22 For I delight in the Law of God according to the inward man;
Cross References
Romans 7:23
but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin being in my members.
Romans 8:2
But 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 many of the people, many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not been cleansed, but ate the Passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, May the good LORD pardon everyone
Psalm 19:12-13
Who can understand his errors? Oh make me pure from secret faults;
Psalm 40:12
For evils without number have hemmed me in; my sins have taken hold on me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.
Psalm 65:3
Things of iniquity are mightier than I; as for our transgressions, You shall purge them away.
Psalm 119:37
Turn away my eyes from seeing vanity; in Your way give me life.
Psalm 119:133
Order my steps in Your Word; and do not let any iniquity rule over me.
Isaiah 6:5-7
Then I said, Woe is me! For I am undone; for 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, Jehovah of Hosts.
Zechariah 3:1-4
And He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
Luke 4:1
And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness
John 8:34
Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Whoever practices sin is the slave of sin.
Romans 6:12
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
Romans 6:14
For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under Law, but under grace.
Romans 7:25
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then with the mind I myself serve the Law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
Ephesians 6:11-13
Put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Hebrews 2:17
Therefore in all things it behoved him to be made like His brothers, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of His people.
Hebrews 4:15
For we do not have a high priest who cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted just as we are, yet without sin.
2 Peter 2:19
promising them liberty, they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom anyone has been overcome, even to this one he has been enslaved.