For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it.
Romans 7:17 - New Revised Standard Version But in fact it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition However, it is no longer I who do the deed, but the sin [principle] which is at home in me and has possession of me. American Standard Version (1901) So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me. Common English Bible But now I’m not the one doing it anymore. Instead, it’s sin that lives in me. Catholic Public Domain Version But I am then acting not according to the law, but according to the sin which lives within me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. |
For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it.
Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me.
but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has—not according to what one does not have.