Verse 18
Romans 7:18
World English Bible, British Edition
18
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For
desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.
Original Language Text
greek
οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι οὐκ οἰκεῖ ἐν ἐμοί, τοῦτ’ ἔστιν ἐν τῇ σαρκί μου, ἀγαθόν· τὸ γὰρ θέλειν παράκειταί μοι, τὸ δὲ κατεργάζεσθαι τὸ καλὸν ⸀οὔ·
English Translation
For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
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Chapter 7 Context
1
Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion
over a...
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2
For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while
he lives, but if the husband d...
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3
So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she
would be called an adulteress...
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4
Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the
body of Christ, that you woul...
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5
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through
the law worked in our members...
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6
But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which
we were held; so that we...
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7
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However,
I wouldn’t have known sin except t...
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8
But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all
kinds of coveting. For apart f...
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9
I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin
revived and I died.
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10
The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;
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11
for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and
through it killed me.
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12
Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, righteous,
and good.
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13
Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never
be! But sin, that it might be shown to...
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14
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under
sin.
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15
For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I don’t practise what I
desire to do; but what I hate, t...
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16
But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it
is good.
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17
So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
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18
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For
desire is present with me, bu...
19
For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t
desire, that I practise.
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20
But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but
sin which dwells in me.
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21
I find then the law that, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
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22
For I delight in God (Elohim)’s law after the inward person,
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23
but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of
my mind, and bringing me into ca...
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24
What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this
death?
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I thank God (Elohim) through Yashua (Jesus) Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I
myself serve...
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