Romans 7:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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

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

Genesis 8:21

And the LORD smelled the sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

Job 25:4

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

Psalm 119:173

Let thine hand be ready to help me; For I have chosen thy precepts.

Psalm 119:176

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; For I do not forget thy commandments.

Psalm 119:32

I will run the way of thy commandments, When thou shalt enlarge my heart. ה HE

Psalm 119:40

Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: Quicken me in thy righteousness. ו VAU

Psalm 119:5

Oh that my ways were established To observe thy statutes!

Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.

Isaiah 64:6

For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:

Luke 11:13

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

John 3:6

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 13:14

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.

Romans 7:15

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

Romans 7:19

For the good which I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I practise.

Romans 7:25

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself with the mind serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.

Galatians 5:24

And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.

Philippians 2:13

for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

Philippians 3:12

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may apprehend that for which also I was apprehended by Christ Jesus.

Titus 3:3

For we also were aforetime foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

1 Peter 4:2

that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.