Bible: Rom. 7:15-25; 8:3-13

7:15 For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want – instead, I do what I hate. 1  7:16 But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good. 2  7:17 But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me. 7:18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it. 3  7:19 For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want! 7:20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.

7:21 So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me. 7:22 For I delight in the law of God in my inner being. 7:23 But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members. 7:24 Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 7:25 Thanks be 4  to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, 5  I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but 6  with my flesh I serve 7  the law of sin.

8:3 The waters kept receding steadily 1  from the earth, so that they 2  had gone down 3  by the end of the 150 days. 8:4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat. 4  8:5 The waters kept on receding 5  until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible. 6 

8:6 At the end of forty days, 7  Noah opened the window he had made in the ark 8  8:7 and sent out a raven; it kept flying 9  back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

8:8 Then Noah 10  sent out a dove 11  to see if the waters had receded 12  from the surface of the ground. 8:9 The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered 13  the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah 14  in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, 15  and brought it back into the ark. 16  8:10 He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark. 8:11 When 17  the dove returned to him in the evening, there was 18  a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth. 8:12 He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, 19  but it did not return to him this time. 20 

8:13 In Noah’s six hundred and first year, 21  in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that 22  the surface of the ground was dry.

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