Rom 7:18, 20, 23, Jam 4:5-6 | ESV | STEP | For I know that nothing good dwells in me , that is , in my flesh . For I have the desire to do what is right , but not the ability to carry it out.

f 1 Pet. 5:5; Cited from Prov. 3:34 (Gk.)

Romans 7:18

18 For I know that nothing good dwells ^ain me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.

Romans 7:20

20 Now if I do what I do not want, ^bit is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

Romans 7:23

23 but I see in my members ^canother law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.

James 4:5-6

5 Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit ^dthat he has made to dwell in us”? 6 But ^ehe gives more grace. Therefore it says, ^f“God opposes the proud but ^ggives grace to the humble.”