Romans 7:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ For I know that the good does not dwell within me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do the good lies close at hand, but not the ability.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ 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)

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ 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

The Lord saw that the wickedness of humans was great in the earth and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.

Genesis 8:21

And when the Lord smelled the pleasing odor, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of humans, for the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth; nor will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one can.

Job 25:4

How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Psalm 119:173

Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

Psalm 119:176

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek out your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.

Psalm 119:32

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

Psalm 119:40

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

Psalm 119:5

O that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes!

Psalm 51:5

Indeed, I was born guilty, a sinner when my mother conceived me.

Isaiah 64:6

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

Luke 11:13

If you, then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

John 3:6

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 13:14

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

Romans 7:15

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

Romans 7:19

For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.

Romans 7:25

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I am enslaved to the law of God, but with my flesh I am enslaved to the law of sin.

Romans 7:5

For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

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.

Galatians 5:24

And those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Philippians 2:13

for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Philippians 3:12

Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal, but I press on to lay hold of that for which Christ has laid hold of me.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.

1 Peter 4:2

so as to live for the rest of your time in the flesh no longer by human desires but by the will of God.