Romans 7:16
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
If then I doe that which I would not, I consent vnto the Law, that it is good.
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- Romans 7:12Rank 1 from verse 16
- 1 Timothy 1:8Rank 2 from verse 16
- Romans 7:14Rank 3 from verse 16
- Psalms 119:127–128Rank 4 from verse 16
127Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
128Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
127*Therefore I loue thy Commandements: aboue gold, yea aboue fine gold.
128Therefore I esteeme all thy precepts concerning all things to be right: and I hate euery false way.
- Romans 7:22Rank 5 from verse 16
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Romans 7:16
1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.
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1. To agree, assent, or give permission. 2. Agreement or assent; in ‘with one consent,’ common agreement.
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Sense 1: An authoritative rule, command, ordinance, instruction, standard, or body of requirements. Sense 2: The writings containing such instruction. Sense 3: A governing principle, power, regular order, or civil rule. Sense 4: In family compounds, relationship by marriage.
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Sense 1: Right, morally upright, beneficial, pleasing, useful, suitable, sound, favourable, or excellent. Sense 2: A good thing, benefit, welfare, possession, or goods. Sense 3: In ‘make good,’ to repair, repay, fulfil, establish, or prove.
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7:14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
7:14For wee know that the Law is spirituall: but I am carnall, sold vnder sinne.
7:15For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
7:15For that which I do, I †allow not: for what I would, that do I not, but what I hate, that doe I.
7:16If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
7:16If then I doe that which I would not, I consent vnto the Law, that it is good.
Selected passage7:17Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
7:17Now then, it is no more I that doe it: but sinne that dwelleth in me.
7:18For 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.
7:18For I know, that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing. For to will is present with me: but how to performe that which is good, I find not.
7:19For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
7:19For the good that I would, I do not: but the euill which I would not, that I doe.
7:20Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
7:20Now if I doe that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sinne that dwelleth in me.
7:21I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
7:21I find then a Law, that when I would do good, euil is present with me.
7:22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
7:22For I delight in the Lawe of God, after the inward man.
7:23But 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.
7:23But I see another Lawe in my members, warring against the Lawe of my minde, and bringing me into captiuity to the Law of sinne, which is in my members.
7:24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
7:24O wretched man that I am: who shall deliuer me from ‖the body of this death?
7:25I 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.
7:25I thanke God through Iesus Christ our Lord. So then, with the mind I my self serue the Law of God: but with the flesh, the law of sinne.