Romans 7:15 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

¹⁵ I do not understand my own actions. For I am so far from habitually doing what I want to do, that I find myself doing the very thing that I hate.

⁴⁸ You are actually witnesses to your ancestors' acts and show your approval of them, because, while they killed the Prophets, you build tombs for them.

¹⁶ But when I do what I want not to do, I am admitting that the Law is right.

¹⁹ I fail to do the good thing that I want to do, but the bad thing that I want not to do-that I habitually do. ²⁰ But, when I do the very thing that I want not to do, the action is no longer my own, but that of Sin which is within me.

⁹ Let your love be sincere. Hate the wrong; cling to the right.

²² As for yourself--keep this faith of yours to yourself, as in the presence of God. Happy is he who never has to condemn himself in regard to the very thing which he thinks right!

¹⁷ For these cravings of our earthly nature conflict with the Spirit, and the Spirit with our earthly nature--they are two contrary principles--so that you cannot do what you wish.

¹² Not that I have already laid hold of it, or that I am already made perfect. But I press on, in the hope of actually laying hold of that for which indeed I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. ¹³ For I, Brothers, do not regard myself as having yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do--forgetting what lies behind, and straining every nerve for that which lies in front, ¹⁴ I press on to the goal, to gain the prize of that heavenward Call which God gave me through Christ Jesus.

¹⁹ Yet God's firm foundation still stands unmoved, and it bears this inscription-- 'THE LORD KNOWS THOSE WHO ARE HIS'; and this-- 'LET ALL THOSE WHO USE THE NAME OF THE LORD TURN AWAY FROM WICKEDNESS.'

⁹ Thou lovest righteousness and hatest iniquity; Therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with the festal oil more abundantly than thy peers.'

² We often make mistakes, every one of us. Any one who does not make mistakes when speaking is indeed a perfect man, able to bridle his whole body as well.

⁷ But, if our lives are lived in the Light, as God himself is in the Light, we have communion with one another, and the Blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. ⁸ If we say that there is no sin in us, we are deceiving ourselves, and the Truth has no place in us.

²³ To others show pity, but with caution, hating the very clothing polluted by their touch.