Romans 7:22
For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,
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Romans 7:18
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.
Romans 7:19
For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.
Romans 7:20
But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
Romans 7:21
I find then the law that, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
Romans 7:22
For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,
Romans 7:23
but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
Romans 7:24
What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
Romans 7:25
I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.
Romans 7:15
For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
Romans 7:16
But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
James 3:2
For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.
Matthew 26:41
Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
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2 Corinthians 4:16
Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day.
Ephesians 3:16
that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,
1 Peter 3:4
but from the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in God’s sight.
Psalms 51:6
Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
Romans 2:29
but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
Ephesians 4:22
that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,
Ephesians 4:23
and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
Ephesians 4:24
and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
Colossians 3:9
Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
Colossians 3:10
and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
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Psalms 40:8
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
Psalms 1:2
but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
Psalms 119:16
I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.
Psalms 119:35
Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.
Job 23:12
I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Psalms 112:1
Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.
Psalms 119:47
I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.
Psalms 119:174
I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.
Psalms 119:24
Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.
Psalms 119:5
Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!
Proverbs 30:5
“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Psalms 119:14
I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.
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Romans 7:7
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
Romans 7:8
But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
Romans 7:9
I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
Romans 7:10
The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;
Romans 7:11
for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
Romans 7:12
Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, righteous, and good.
Romans 7:13
Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.
Romans 7:14
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
Matthew 5:17
“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.
Matthew 5:19
Therefore, whoever shall break one of these least commandments and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Romans 3:31
Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
1 Corinthians 9:21
to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.
2 Corinthians 3:7
But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away,
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Psalms 19:7
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
Psalms 19:8
Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Psalms 19:9
The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
Psalms 19:10
They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
Psalms 19:11
Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.
Psalms 119:127
Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.
Psalms 119:128
Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.
Psalms 119:97
How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
Psalms 119:104
Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
Psalms 119:140
Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.
Deuteronomy 4:8
What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today?
Job 33:27
He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.
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Jeremiah 31:33
“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Hebrews 8:10
“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the Lord: “I will put my laws into their mind; I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Psalms 37:31
The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.
Hebrews 10:16
“This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days,” says the Lord, “I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;” then he says,
2 Corinthians 3:3
being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
Jeremiah 32:40
I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
Romans 2:15
in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)
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Psalms 119:70
Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.
Psalms 119:45
I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.
Psalms 119:25
My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!
Psalms 119:32
I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.
Psalms 119:54
Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.
Psalms 119:159
Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your loving kindness.
Psalms 119:173
Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.
Proverbs 21:15
It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
Isaiah 58:14
then you will delight yourself in Yahweh, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;” for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.
James 2:12
So speak and so do as men who are to be judged by the law of freedom.
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Psalms 119:92
Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
Psalms 119:48
I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes.
Psalms 119:77
Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.
Jeremiah 15:16
Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.
Psalms 119:167
My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.
Isaiah 64:5
You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved?
John 4:34
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
James 1:25
But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
1 John 5:3
For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
Psalms 119:72
The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
Psalms 119:103
How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!
Psalms 119:143
Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.
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Romans 7:17
So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
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Romans 8:6
For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;
Romans 8:7
because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
Galatians 5:16
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Galatians 5:17
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
Galatians 5:23
gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:24
Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
Romans 8:4
that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 8:9
But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
Romans 8:12
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
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Luke 11:39
The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
Psalms 5:9
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
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Psalms 36:4
He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
Psalms 97:10
You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
Amos 5:15
Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
Romans 12:9
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
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Matthew 11:28
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
Matthew 11:30
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
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