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The Book of Romans, Chapter 7, Verse 20

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For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
King James Version
Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
American Standard Version
But if what I would not, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.
New English Translation
But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.
World English Bible
But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
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I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
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For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
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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.
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O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
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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.
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[There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
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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:
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That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.