Verse 18
Romans 7:18
Darby Translation
18
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right [I find] not.
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.
AI translation from greek via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 7 Context
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Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as...
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For the married woman is bound by law to her husband so long as he is alive; but if the husband shou...
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so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if...
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So that, my brethren, *ye* also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to a...
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For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which [were] by the law, wrought in our members...
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but now we are clear from the law, having died in that in which we were held, so that we should serv...
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What shall we say then? [is] the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law...
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but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin...
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But *I* was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but *I* died.
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And the commandment, which [was] for life, was found, [as] to me, itself [to be] unto death:
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for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].
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So that the law indeed [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
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Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be the thought. But sin, that it might appear si...
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For we know that the law is spiritual: but *I* am fleshly, sold under sin.
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For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.
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But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that [it is] right.
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Now then [it is] no longer *I* [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.
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For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but...
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For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.
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But if what *I* do not will, this I practise, [it is] no longer *I* [that] do it, but the sin that d...
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I find then the law upon *me* who will to practise what is right, that with *me* evil is there.
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For I delight in the law of God (Elohim) according to the inward man:
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but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition to the law of my mind, and bringing me in...
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O wretched man that I [am]! who shall deliver me out of this body of death?
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I thank God (Elohim), through Yashua (Jesus) Christ our Lord. So then *I* *myself* with the mind ser...
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