Romans 7:20
But if what *I* do not will, this I practise, [it is] no longer *I* [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
In Context
19For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.
21I find then the law upon *me* who will to practise what is right, that with *me* evil is there.
Cross References
Romans 7:17Now then [it is] no longer *I* [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.
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 →