Romans 7:17
But now it is not I who work this, but sin which dwelleth in me.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
In Context
16And if the thing that I would not, I do, I witness of the law that it is good.
Cross References
Romans 7:18For I know that in me, but that is in my flesh, good dwelleth not; because to will the good is easy to me, but to perform it I find not.
Romans 7:23but I see another law in my members, which warreth against the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.
Philippians 3:8and I also (still) reckon them all loss, for the grandeur of the knowledge of Jeshu Meshiha my Lord; for whose sake I have lost all things, and have reckoned as dung, that the Meshiha I may gain,
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 →