Rom 7:18
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.
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That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. {conceive...: Heb. warm me}
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
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.
Who can bring a clean {thing} out of an unclean? not one. {can...: Heb. will give}
And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. {affections: or, passions}
What {is} man, that he should be clean? and {he which is} born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man {was} great in the earth, and {that} every imagination of the thoughts of his heart {was} only evil continually. {every...: or, the whole imagination: the Hebrew word signifieth not only the imagination, but also the purposes and desires} {continually: Heb. every day}
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of {his} good pleasure.
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: {for sin: or, by a sacrifice for sin}
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, {and} hating one another.
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: {covetousness...: Gr. covetousnesses, wickednesses}
And you {hath he quickened}, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. {allow: Gr. know}
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart {is} evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. {a sweet...: Heb. a savour of rest or, satisfaction} {for the imagination: or, through the imagination}
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean {that is} born of a woman?
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to {fulfil} the lusts {thereof}.
That he no longer should live the rest of {his} time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall {your} heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. {motions: Gr. passions}
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are {these}; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
But we are all as an unclean {thing}, and all our righteousnesses {are} as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
But we are all as an unclean {thing}, and all our righteousnesses {are} as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly {is} ready, but the flesh {is} weak.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are {these}; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
What {is} man, that he should be clean? and {he which is} born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall {your} heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
But we know that the law {is} good, if a man use it lawfully;
But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep {it}, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. {desires: Gr. wills}
But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.
Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.
And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;