Romans 7:18
For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
In Context
17So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.
Job 14:4If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.
Job 25:4How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?
Psalms 119:5If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules!
Psalms 119:40See how great is my desire for your orders: give me life in your righteousness.
Psalms 119:173Let your hand be near for my help; for I have given my heart to your orders.
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 →