Verse List for ROM 7:21

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) As a result, I’ve discovered the principle that when I want to do good, actually there’s evil in me,

OET-LV I _am _finding consequently the law, in _which wanting me to _be _doing the good, that in _me the evil is _dwelling.

ULT I find, then, this law in me, the one wanting to do good, that evil is present in me.

UST Consequently, I realized that a principle exists: I keep on doing evil things, even though I really want to do good things.

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

BLB So I find the principle in my desiring to do good, that evil is present with me.

AICNT So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand;

OEB This, then, is the law that I find – when I want to do right, wrong presents itself!

WEBBE & WMBB I find then the law that, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

NET So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

LSV I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, the evil is present with me,

FBV This is the principle I've discovered: if I want to do what's good, evil is always there too.

TCNT I find then the law that when I want to do what is right, evil is present with me.

T4T I find, then, that what always happens is that when I want to do what is good, there is an evil desire present within me that [PRS] prevents me from doing good.

LEB Consequently, I find the principle with me, the one who wants to do good, that evil is present with me.[fn]

BBE So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me.

Moff So this is my experience of the Law: I want to do what is right, but wrong is all I can manage;

Wymth I find therefore the law of my nature to be that when I desire to do what is right, evil is lying in ambush for me.

ASV I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is present.

DRA I find then a law, that when I have a will to do good, evil is present with me.

YLT I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, with me the evil is present,

Drby I find then the law upon me who will to practise what is right, that with me evil is there.

RV I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is present.

SLT I find therefore a law to me, wishing to do good, that evil lies near me.

Wbstr I find then a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.

KJB-1769 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

KJB-1611 I find then a Law, that when I would do good, euil is present with me.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation)

Bshps I fynde then by the lawe, that when I woulde do good, euyll is present with me.
(I find then by the law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.)

Gnva I finde then that when I would doe good, I am thus yoked, that euill is present with me.
(I find then that when I would do good, I am thus yoked, that evil is present with me.)

Cvdl Thus fynde I now by the lawe, yt whan I wyl do good, euell is present with me.
(Thus find I now by the law, it when I will do good, evil is present with me.)

TNT I fynde then by the lawe that when I wolde do good evyll is present with me.
(I find then by the law that when I would do good evil is present with me.)

Wycl Therfor Y fynde the lawe to me willynge to do good thing, for yuel thing lieth to me.
(Therefore I find the law to me willing to do good thing, for evil thing lieth/lies to me.)

Luth So finde ich mir nun ein Gesetz, der ich will das Gute tun, daß mir das Böse anhanget.
(So find I to_me now a law, the/of_the I will the goodness do/put, that to_me the evil/evil_(person) attached.)

ClVg Invenio igitur legem, volenti mihi facere bonum, quoniam mihi malum adjacet:[fn]
(Invenio therefore the_law, willing to_me to_do good, since/because to_me evil adyacet:)

SR-GNT Εὑρίσκω ἄρα τὸν νόμον, τῷ θέλοντι ἐμοὶ ποιεῖν τὸ καλὸν, ὅτι ἐμοὶ τὸ κακὸν παράκειται. ‡

UGNT εὑρίσκω ἄρα τὸν νόμον τῷ θέλοντι ἐμοὶ ποιεῖν τὸ καλὸν, ὅτι ἐμοὶ τὸ κακὸν παράκειται.

SBL-GNT Εὑρίσκω ἄρα τὸν νόμον τῷ θέλοντι ἐμοὶ ποιεῖν τὸ καλὸν ὅτι ἐμοὶ τὸ κακὸν παράκειται·

RP-GNT Εὑρίσκω ἄρα τὸν νόμον τῷ θέλοντι ἐμοὶ ποιεῖν τὸ καλόν, ὅτι ἐμοὶ τὸ κακὸν παράκειται.

TC-GNT Εὑρίσκω ἄρα τὸν νόμον τῷ θέλοντι ἐμοὶ ποιεῖν τὸ καλὸν ὅτι ἐμοὶ τὸ κακὸν παράκειται·