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Romans 7:21
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
Romans 7:21 · King James Version
Romans 7:21 in other translations
So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
I find then the law that, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
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In context
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
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 which is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
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