Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he shall come unto the priest;
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_45 7:14-24
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For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am made out of flesh, sold into sin's power.
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For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate.
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And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
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So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is sin living in me.
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For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.
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For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do.
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Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but it is the sin that lives in me.
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So I discover this principle: when I want to do good, evil is with me.
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For in my inner self I joyfully agree with God's law.
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But I see a different law in the parts of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body.
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What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_48 1:14-16
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and I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my people, because I was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.
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But when God, who from my mother's womb set me apart and called me by His grace, was pleased
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to reveal His Son in me, so that I could preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_50 3:6-8
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as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to the righteousness that is in the law, blameless.
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But everything that was a gain to me, I have considered to be a loss because of Christ.
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More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Because of Him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them filth, so that I may gain Christ
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_54 1:13-15
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one who was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an arrogant man. Since it was out of ignorance that I had acted in unbelief, I received mercy,
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and the grace of our Lord overflowed, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
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This saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance: "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners"-- and I am the worst of them.
