Romans 7:18

For I have da'as that there dwells in me, that is, in my basar (my fallen humanity enslaved to Chet Kadmon) no good thing; for the wish [to do what is right] lies ready at hand for me, but to accomplish the good is not.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

In Context

17But now it is no longer I doing this, but [the power of] Chet (Sin) which dwells within me. + 7:17 Ro 5:13-14; 6:23

19For I fail to do good as I wish, but HaRah (The Evil) which I do not wish is what I commit.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:5And Hashem saw that the wickedness of HaAdam was great in ha'aretz and that every yetzer (inclination) of the machshevot (thoughts) of his lev was only rah (evil) continually. + 6:5 Ro 7:18

Job 14:4Who can bring a tahor (clean thing) out of a tameh (an unclean)? + 14:4 cf. Ro 5:12 1 Loh echad (No one). 1

Job 25:4Mah yitzdak Enosh im El (how then can man be justified, set right, with G-d?) 1 Or how can he be clean that is born of isha? 1

Psalms 119:5O that my drakhim were directed 1 to be shomer over Thy chukkim (statutes)! 1

Psalms 119:40Hinei, I have longed after Thy precepts; 1 revive me in Thy tzedakah. ו VAV 1

Psalms 119:173Let Thine Yad help me; 1 for I have chosen Thy pikkudim. 1

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 →

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