Romans 7:18

For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, lives no good thing. For the desire for good is with me, but I cannot do it.

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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 who do it, but the sin that lives in me.

19For the good that I want I do not do, but the evil that I do not want, that I do.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:5Yahweh saw that the wickedness of mankind was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.

Job 14:4Who can bring something clean out of something unclean? No one. 1

Job 25:4How then can man be righteous with God? 1 How can he who is born of a woman be clean, acceptable to him? 1

Psalms 119:5Oh, that I would be firmly established 1 in the observance of your statutes! 1

Psalms 119:40See, I have longed for your instructions; 1 revive me in your righteousness. VAV 1

Psalms 119:173May your hand help me, 1 for I have chosen your instructions. 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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