Romans 7:15
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
In Context
14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
16And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.
Cross References
Psalms 1:6For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
Psalms 36:4Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
Psalms 97:10Hate evil, O you who love the LORD! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
Psalms 119:1Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD.
Psalms 119:40How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.
Psalms 119:113The double-minded I despise, but Your law I love.
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 →