So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
Cross References
Romans 7:23But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.
Romans 7:25Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Romans 8:2For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.
Treasury of Scripture
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
a law.
Romans 7:23
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.
Romans 6:12,14
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof…
Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
evil.
2 Chronicles 30:18,19
For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one …
Psalm 19:12
Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
Psalm 40:12
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
