Romans 7:20
However, if I'm doing what I don't want to, then it's no longer me doing it, but sin living in me.
Free Bible Version
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
19The good I want to do, I don't do; while the evil I don't want to do, that's what I end up doing!
21This is the principle I've discovered: if I want to do what's good, evil is always there too.
Cross References
Romans 7:17So it's no longer me who does this, but sin living 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 →