Romans 7:18 - The Scriptures 2009

For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, dwells no good. For to wish is present with me, but to work the good I do not find.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot perform it. [I have the intention and urge to do what is right, but no power to carry it out.]

American Standard Version (1901)

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good is not.

Common English Bible

I know that good doesn’t live in me—that is, in my body. The desire to do good is inside of me, but I can’t do it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For I know that what is good does not live within me, that is, within my flesh. For the willingness to do good lies close to me, but the carrying out of that good, I cannot reach.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is to say, in my flesh, that which is good. For to will, is present with me; but to accomplish that which is good, I find not.

Romans 7:18 Cross References

Genesis 6:5

And יהוה saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 8:21

And יהוה smelled a soothing fragrance, and יהוה said in His heart, “Never again shall I curse the ground because of man, although the inclination of man’s heart is evil from his youth, and never again strike all living creatures, as I have done,

Job 14:4

Who brings the clean out of the unclean? No one!

Job 25:4

So how could man be righteous before Ěl? Or how could he be flawless who is born of a woman?

Psalm 119:173

Your hand is a help to me, For I have chosen Your orders.

Psalm 119:176

I have strayed like a lost sheep; Seek Your servant, For I have not forgotten Your commands.

Psalm 119:32

I run the way of Your commands, For You enlarge my heart.

Psalm 119:40

See, I have longed for Your orders; Revive me in Your righteousness.

Psalm 119:5

Oh, that my ways were established To guard Your laws!

Psalm 51:5

See, I was brought forth in crookedness, And in sin my mother conceived me.

Isaiah 64:6

And all of us have become as one unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as soiled rags. And all of us fade like a leaf, and our crookednesses, like the wind, have taken us away.

Matthew 15:19

“For out of the heart come forth wicked reasonings, murders, adulteries, whorings, thefts, false witnessings, slanders.

Luke 11:13

If you then, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father from heaven give the Set-apart Spirit to those asking Him!

John 3:6

“That which has been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 13:14

but put on the Master יהושע Messiah, and make no provision for the lusts of the flesh.

Romans 7:15

For what I work, I know not. For what I wish, that I do not practise, but what I hate, that I do.

Romans 7:19

For the good that I wish to do, I do not do; but the evil I do not wish to do, this I practise.

Romans 7:25

Thanks to Elohim, through יהושע Messiah our Master! So then, with the mind I myself truly serve the Torah of Elohim, but with the flesh the torah of sin.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, through the Torah, were working in our members to bear fruit to death.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. And these are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you desire to do.

Galatians 5:24

And those who are of Messiah have impaled the flesh with its passions and the desires.

Philippians 2:13

for it is Elohim who is working in you both to desire and to work for his good pleasure.

Philippians 3:12

Not that I have already received, or already been perfected, but I press on, to lay hold of that for which Messiah יהושע has also laid hold of me.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, being hated and hating one another.

1 Peter 4:2

so that he no longer lives the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but according to the desire of Elohim.