Romans 7:15
I really don't understand what I'm doing. I do the things I don't want to do, and what I hate doing, that's what I do!
Free Bible Version
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
14We realize that the law is spiritual; but I'm all-too-human, a slave to sin.
16But if I'm saying that I do what I don't want to, this shows that I admit the law is good and right.
Cross References
Psalms 1:6For the Lord watches over those who follow the right way, but the way of the wicked leads to death.
Psalms 36:4Even when they're lying in bed they think up evil schemes. They commit themselves to a way of life that is no good. They choose evil, and don't reject it.
Psalms 97:10You who love the Lord, hate evil! He protects the lives of those who are faithful to him, and saves them from the power of wicked people.
Psalms 119:1Happy are those who do what is right, who follow what the Lord says.
Psalms 119:40I always want to do what you say. Please let me live, for you do what is right.
Psalms 119:113I hate people who are two-faced, but I love your law.
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 →