Romans 7:18
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
King James Version
In Context
17Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
19For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5And GOD 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 justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Psalms 119:5O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
Psalms 119:40Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
Psalms 119:173Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy 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 →