Romans 7:18
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.
World English Bible
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In Context
17So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
19For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
Psalms 119:5Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!
Psalms 119:40Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness.
Psalms 119:173Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.
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 →