Romans 7:16
And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
In Context
15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.
17In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
Cross References
Psalms 119:127Therefore I love Your commandments more than gold, even the purest gold.
Romans 7:14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
1 Timothy 1:8Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it legitimately.
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 →