Romans 7:19
We keep on trying to do good things, but we can’t. No, we keep on doing the bad things we don’t want to do.
Plain English Version
In The King James Version
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
In Context
18We know that we can’t do anything good by ourselves. We want to do the right thing, but we can’t.
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 →