Romans 7:18
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right [I find] not.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
17Now then [it is] no longer *I* [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.
19For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of Man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continually.
Job 14:4Who can bring a clean [man] out of the unclean? Not one!
Job 25:4And how should man be just with God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman?
Psalms 119:5Oh that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
Psalms 119:40Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
Psalms 119:173Let thy hand be for my help; for I have chosen thy precepts.
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 →