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Rom 7:18 — For 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

that in me		Gen 6:5; Gen 8:21; Job 14:4; Job 15:14-16; Job 25:4; Psa 51:5; Isa 64:6; Mat 15:19; Mar 7:21-23; Luk 11:13; Eph 2:1-5; Tts 3:3; 1Pe 4:2
in my		Rom 7:5,25; Rom 8:3-13; Rom 13:14; Jhn 3:6; Gal 5:19-21,24
for to will		Rom 7:15,19,25; Psa 119:5,32,40,115-117,173,176; Gal 5:17; Phl 2:13; Phl 3:12

Correlating Passages

that in me

	Gen 6:5	And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.
	Gen 8:21	And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart [is] evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
	Job 14:4	Who can bring a clean [thing] out of an unclean? not one.
	Job 15:14	What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
	Job 15:15	Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
	Job 15:16	How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
	Job 25:4	How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean [that is] born of a woman?
	Psa 51:5	Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
	Isa 64:6	But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
	Mat 15:19	For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
	Mar 7:21	For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
	Mar 7:22	Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
	Mar 7:23	All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
	Luk 11:13	If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall [your] heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
	Eph 2:1	And you [hath he quickened], who were dead in trespasses and sins;
	Eph 2:2	Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
	Eph 2:3	Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
	Eph 2:4	But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
	Eph 2:5	Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
	Tts 3:3	For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another.
	1Pe 4:2	That he no longer should live the rest of [his] time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

in my

	Rom 7:5	For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
	Rom 7:25	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.
	Rom 8:3	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:
	Rom 8:4	That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
	Rom 8:5	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.
	Rom 8:6	For to be carnally minded [is] death; but to be spiritually minded [is] life and peace.
	Rom 8:7	Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
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	Rom 13:14	But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof].
	Jhn 3:6	That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
	Gal 5:19	Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
	Gal 5:20	Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
	Gal 5:21	Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
	Gal 5:24	And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

for to will

	Rom 7:15	For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
	Rom 7:19	For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
	Rom 7:25	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.
	Psa 119:5	O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
	Psa 119:32	I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
	Psa 119:40	Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
	Psa 119:115	Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
	Psa 119:116	Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
	Psa 119:117	Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.
	Psa 119:173	Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
	Psa 119:176	I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
	Gal 5:17	For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
	Phl 2:13	For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.
	Phl 3:12	Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

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Scott, Thomas. "Romans 7:18," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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