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 to do that which is good is not.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
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 do not do; but the evil which I do not desire, that I practice.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
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 steadfastto obey your statutes!
Psalms 119:40Behold, I long for your precepts!Revive me in your righteousness.VAV
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 →