Romans 7:21
So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
In context
18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. 21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?
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- KJV King James Version
— Romans 7:21 in the KJV
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
- ESV English Standard Version
— Romans 7:21 in the ESV
So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.