Romans 7:16
So, when I do what I do not want to do, I am in agreement with the law, that the law is good.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
In Context
17But I am then acting not according to the law, but according to the sin which lives within me.
Cross References
Romans 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual. But I am carnal, having been sold under sin.
1 Timothy 1:8But we know that the law is good, if one makes use of it properly.
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 →