Romans 7:18
I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot discover how to carry it out.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
17In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
19For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
Job 14:4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
Psalms 119:5Oh, that my ways were committed to keeping Your statutes!
Psalms 119:40How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.
Psalms 119:173May Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen Your 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 →