Romans 7:19
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New American Standard Bible (©1995)
For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.
GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I don't do the good I want to do. Instead, I do the evil that I don't want to do.
King James Bible
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
American Standard Version
For the good which I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I practise.
Bible in Basic English
For the good which I have a mind to do, I do not: but the evil which I have no mind to do, that I do.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For the good which I will, I do not; but the evil which I will not, that I do.
Darby Bible Translation
For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.
English Revised Version
For the good which I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I practise.
Tyndale New Testament
For I do not that good thing which I would: but that evil do I, which I would not.
Weymouth New Testament
For what I do is not the good thing that I desire to do; but the evil thing that I desire not to do, is what I constantly do.
Webster's Bible Translation
For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.
World English Bible
For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice.
Young's Literal Translation
for the good that I will, I do not; but the evil that I do not will, this I practise.
Romans 7:15 For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. (NASB ©1995)
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
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Geneva Study Bible
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
People's New Testament
7:19 The good that I would I do not. This verse proves the statement of Ro 7:18. It is the strongest expression of sinfulness yet made. What could better demonstrate the bondage to sin? Yet how true to human experience!
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
19, 21. For, &c.—The conflict here graphically described between a self that "desires" to do good and a self that in spite of this does evil, cannot be the struggles between conscience and passion in the unregenerate, because the description given of this "desire to do good" in Ro 7:22 is such as cannot be ascribed, with the least show of truth, to any but the renewed.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
7:18-22 The more pure and holy the heart is, it will have the more quick feeling as to the sin that remains in it. The believer sees more of the beauty of holiness and the excellence of the law. His earnest desires to obey, increase as he grows in grace. But the whole good on which his will is fully bent, he does not do; sin ever springing up in him, through remaining corruption, he often does evil, though against the fixed determination of his will. The motions of sin within grieved the apostle. If by the striving of the flesh against the Spirit, was meant that he could not do or perform as the Spirit suggested, so also, by the effectual opposition of the Spirit, he could not do what the flesh prompted him to do. How different this case from that of those who make themselves easy with regard to the inward motions of the flesh prompting them to evil; who, against the light and warning of conscience, go on, even in outward practice, to do evil, and thus, with forethought, go on in the road to perdition! For as the believer is under grace, and his will is for the way of holiness, he sincerely delights in the law of God, and in the holiness which it demands, according to his inward man; that new man in him, which after God is created in true holiness.
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