Romans 7:15
For what I do, I know not: for that which I wish to do, this I do not; but that which I hate, this I do.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
In Context
14For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold into bondage to sin.
16If, then, I do that which I wish not to do, I give assent to the law, that it is good.
Matthew Henry on Romans 7:8-25
Excellency of the Law; Usefulness of the Law. ( a. d. 58.) 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto… Read the whole commentary →