Romans 7:18
For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, for to will is present in me, but to do the good, I find not.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
17But now I no longer perform it, but the sin dwelling in me.
19For I do not do good that I want, instead, wrong that I do not want, this I do.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5And LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on 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 be clean who is born of a woman?
Psalms 119:5O that my ways were established to observe thy statutes!
Psalms 119:40Behold, I have longed after thy precepts. Enliven me in thy righteousness.
Psalms 119:173Let thy hand be ready to 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 →