Where in NT does it speak of consciously choosing sin?

[Glimpse_Ahead]

I remember being fascinated with a certain part of my St. Joseph’s edition of the NAS version when I was reading it last year . In the subtext it went into describing how , what was meant above in the actual scripture , was that everytime the opportunity for a sin to be commited comes up , there has to be at ,least a moment , where we have a choice. And that we actually have to give the " go ahead " , give the consent needed or else it can’t go down , no matter how set in motion things are. I wanted to check that out and study up on what it says again , but I can’t remember where it was , can anyone give me some good places to look that are likely where it was ?

 

[mpernot]

I remember being fascinated with a certain part of my St. Joseph’s edition of the NAS version when I was reading it last year . In the subtext it went into describing how , what was meant above in the actual scripture , was that everytime the opportunity for a sin to be commited comes up , there has to be at ,least a moment , where we have a choice. And that we actually have to give the " go ahead " , give the consent needed or else it can’t go down , no matter how set in motion things are. I wanted to check that out and study up on what it says again , but I can’t remember where it was , can anyone give me some good places to look that are likely where it was ?

What about Romans 7:15 and following:

Romans 7:15-20 from Duoay-Rheims Bible:
For that which I work, I understand not. For I do not that good which I will; but the evil which I hate, that I do. If then I do that which I will not, I consent to the law, that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is to say, in my flesh, that which is good. For to will, is present with me; but to accomplish that which is good, I find not. For the good which I will, I do not; but the evil which I will not, that I do. Now if I do that which I will not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

Also, this is the footnote in that BIble translation for verse 15:
*“I do not that good which I will”… The apostle here describes the disorderly motions of passion and concupiscence; which oftentimes in us get the start of reason: and by means of which even good men suffer in the inferior appetite what their will abhors: and are much hindered in the accomplishment of the desires of their spirit and mind. But these evil motions, (though they are called the law of sin, because they come from original sin, and violently tempt and incline to sin,) as long as the will does not consent to them, are not sins, because they are not voluntary. *