New American Standard Bible 2020

Romans 7:18-25

18For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my 1flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. 19For 2the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20But if I do the very thing I do not want, 3I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that dwells in me.

21I find then 4the 5principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. 22For I joyfully agree with the law of God 6in 7the inner person, 23but I see 8a different law in 9the parts of my body waging war against the 10law of my mind, and making me a prisoner 11of 12the law of sin, the law which is in 13my body’s parts. 24Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from 14 15the body of this 16death? 25 17Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh 18the law of sin.

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Notes

1. Romans 7:18 John 3:6; Rom 7:25; 8:3 ↩
2. Romans 7:19 Rom 7:15 ↩
3. Romans 7:20 Rom 7:17 ↩
4. Romans 7:21 Rom 7:23, 25; 8:2 ↩
5. Romans 7:21 Lit law ↩
6. Romans 7:22 Or with respect to ↩
7. Romans 7:22 2 Cor 4:16; Eph 3:16; 1 Pet 3:4 ↩
8. Romans 7:23 Rom 6:19; Gal 5:17; James 4:1; 1 Pet 2:11 ↩
9. Romans 7:23 Lit my parts waging ↩
10. Romans 7:23 Rom 7:25 ↩
11. Romans 7:23 Lit in ↩
12. Romans 7:23 Rom 7:21, 25; 8:2 ↩
13. Romans 7:23 Lit my parts ↩
14. Romans 7:24 Or this body of death ↩
15. Romans 7:24 Rom 6:6; Col 2:11 ↩
16. Romans 7:24 Rom 8:2 ↩
17. Romans 7:25 1 Cor 15:57 ↩
18. Romans 7:25 Rom 7:21, 23; 8:2 ↩

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