Romans 7:25

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Romans 7:23–25 · Berean Standard Bible

23 But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.

24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

25 Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

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Romans 6:14

For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

Romans 6:17

But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.

Psalms 107:15

Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.

Psalms 107:16

For He has broken down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.

Psalms 116:16

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Psalms 116:17

I will offer to You a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD.

Isaiah 12:1

In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.

Isaiah 49:9

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Isaiah 49:13

Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.

Matthew 1:21

She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”

1 Corinthians 15:57

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

2 Corinthians 9:15

Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

2 Corinthians 12:9

But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.

2 Corinthians 12:10

That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Ephesians 5:20

always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Philippians 3:3

For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—

Philippians 4:6

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Colossians 3:17

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

1 Peter 2:5

you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

Romans 7:15

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.

Romans 7:16

And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.

Romans 7:17

In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

Romans 7:18

I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

Romans 7:19

For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.

Romans 7:20

And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

Romans 7:21

So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

Romans 7:22

For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

Romans 7:23

But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.

Romans 7:24

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.

Galatians 5:18

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Galatians 5:19

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;

Galatians 5:20

idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,

Galatians 5:21

and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Galatians 5:23

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Galatians 5:24

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.