Romans 7:15
For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
World English Bible
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
14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
16But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
Cross References
Psalms 1:6For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
Psalms 36:4He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
Psalms 97:10You who love the LORD, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalms 119:1Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the LORD’s law.
Psalms 119:40Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness.
Psalms 119:113I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.
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 →