📜WEB · Romans 7:18

What does Romans 7:18 mean?

"For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good."

— Romans 7:18 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

15

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

16

But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

17

So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

18

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

19

For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.

20

But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

21

I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

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