Romans 7:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ For I do not understand my own actions [I am baffled, bewildered]. I do not practice or accomplish what I wish, but I do the very thing that I loathe [which my moral instinct condemns].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practise; but what I hate, that I do.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ I don’t know what I’m doing, because I don’t do what I want to do. Instead, I do the thing that I hate.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ For I do things that I do not understand. For I do not do the good that I want to do. But the evil that I hate is what I do.

Romans 7:15 Cross References

Galatians 5:17

For what the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you want.

Nahum 1:7

The Lord is good, a stronghold in a day of trouble; he protects those who take refuge in him,

James 3:2

For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is mature, able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is no one on earth so righteous as to do good without ever sinning.

Romans 12:9

Let love be genuine; hate what is evil; hold fast to what is good;

Jude 1:23

save others by snatching them out of the fire; and have mercy on still others with fear, hating even the tunic defiled by their bodies.

Romans 14:22

Hold the conviction that you have as your own before God. Blessed are those who do not condemn themselves because of what they approve.

Psalm 19:12

But who can detect one’s own errors? Clear me from hidden faults.

2 Timothy 2:19

But God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this inscription: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who calls on the name of the Lord turn away from wickedness.”

Hebrews 1:9

You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.”

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

Romans 7:16

Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good.

Psalm 119:113

I hate the double-minded, but I love your law.

Psalm 101:3

I will not set before my eyes anything that is base. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

Psalm 1:6

for the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

Proverbs 13:5

The righteous hate falsehood, but the wicked act shamefully and disgracefully.

Psalm 119:163

I hate and abhor falsehood, but I love your law.

Psalm 119:128

Truly I direct my steps by all your precepts; I hate every false way.

Psalm 65:3

When deeds of iniquity overwhelm us, you forgive our transgressions.

1 Kings 8:46

“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near,

Psalm 119:40

See, I have longed for your precepts; in your righteousness be gracious to me.

Psalm 119:32

I run the way of your commandments, for you enlarge my understanding.

Luke 11:48

So you are witnesses and approve of the deeds of your ancestors, for they killed them, and you build their tombs.

Psalm 119:104

Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

Psalm 97:10

You who love the Lord, hate evil; he guards the lives of his faithful; he rescues them from the hand of the wicked.

Psalm 36:4

They plot mischief while on their beds; they are set on a way that is not good; they do not reject evil.

John 15:15

I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing, but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.