Romans 7:15
I do not understand my own actions. For I am so far from habitually doing what I want to do, that I find myself doing the thing that I hate.
Open English Bible (UK)
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 know that the Law is spiritual, but I am earthly – sold into slavery to sin.
16But when I do what I want not to do, I am admitting that the Law is right.
Cross References
Psalms 1:6For the way of the righteous is dear to the Lord, but the way of the wicked will end in ruin.
Psalms 36:4Then they plot deliberate wrong, take their stand on the wicked way, without the least shrinking from evil.
Psalms 97:10The Lord loves those who hate evil, he guards the lives of the faithful: from the hand of the wicked he saves them.
Psalms 119:1Happy they whose life is blameless, who walk by the law of the Lord.
Psalms 119:40Behold, I long for your precepts. Quicken me in your righteousness.
Psalms 119:113I hate people of divided heart, but your law do I love.
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 →