Romans 7:19

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

For I do not do the good [things] I want to, but I practice the evil [things] I do not want to.

Cross References

Mark 5:5

And night and day, in the graveyard and in the mountains, he was always shouting out and cutting himself with [sharp] rocks.

Romans 7:15

For I do not [really] understand what I am doing; I practice what I do not want to and I hate what I do. [Note: This highly controversial section (verses 14b-25) is here viewed as the struggles of the apostle Paul after his conversion, and by extension, of all Christians. See Bruce, pages 150ff; Murray, pages 255ff; Lard, pages 236ff].