Parallel Verses
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.
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:
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 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,"
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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 don't want to do, I am no longer the one who is doing it, but it is the sin that is living in me. 21 So I find this to be a principle: when I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me. 22 For I delight in the Law of God in my inner being,
Cross References
Romans 7:23
but I see in my body a different principle waging war with the Law in my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin that exists in my body.
Romans 8:2
For the Spirit's law of life in the Messiah Jesus has set me free from the Law of sin and death.
2 Chronicles 30:18-19
Even though a large crowd of people from as far away as Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun had not completed consecrating themselves, they still ate the Passover in a manner not proscribed by the Law, because Hezekiah had prayed like this for them: "May the good LORD extend a pardon on behalf of
Psalm 19:12-13
Who can detect his own mistake? Cleanse me from hidden sin.
Psalm 40:12
Innumerable evils have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me so that I cannot see. They are more in number than the hair on my head, and my courage has forsaken me.
Psalm 65:3
My acts of iniquity they overwhelm me! Our transgressions you blot them out!
Psalm 119:37
Turn my eyes away from gazing at worthless things, and revive me by your ways.
Psalm 119:133
Direct my footsteps by your promise, and do not let any kind of iniquity rule over me.
Isaiah 6:5-7
"How terrible it will be for me!" I cried, "because I am ruined! I'm a man with unclean lips, and I live among a people with unclean lips! And my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of the Heavenly Armies!"
Zechariah 3:1-4
Then I saw Joshua the High Priest standing in the presence of the angel of the LORD, with Satan standing at his right to oppose him.
Luke 4:1
Then Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan. He was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
John 8:34
Jesus answered them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.
Romans 6:12
Therefore, do not let sin rule your mortal bodies so that you obey their desires.
Romans 6:14
For sin will not have mastery over you, because you are not under Law but under grace.
Romans 7:25
Thank God through Jesus the Messiah, our Lord, because with my mind I myself can serve the Law of God, even while with my human nature I serve the law of sin.
Ephesians 6:11-13
Put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the Devil's strategies.
Hebrews 2:17
thereby becoming like his brothers in every way, so that he could be a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God and could atone for the people's sins.
Hebrews 4:15
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses. Instead, we have one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet he never sinned.
2 Peter 2:19
Promising them freedom, they themselves are slaves to depravity, for a person is a slave to whatever conquers him.