Romans 7:16
But if I'm saying that I do what I don't want to, this shows that I admit the law is good and right.
Free Bible 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
17So it's no longer me who does this, but sin living in me—
Cross References
Psalms 119:127This is why I love your commandments more than gold, more than the finest gold.
Romans 7:14We realize that the law is spiritual; but I'm all-too-human, a slave to sin.
1 Timothy 1:8Now we recognize that the law is good if people use 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 →