Romans 7:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

Romans 7:15 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Galatians 5:17
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Romans 7:19-20
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. …
Ecclesiastes 7:20
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
James 3:2
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Nahum 1:7
The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

Topics

Conscience Creation Depravity of Man God Good and Evil Guilt Justification Man

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-25)

Here is a description of the conflict between grace and corruption in the heart, between the law of God and the law of sin. And it is applicable two ways:—1. To the struggles that are in a convinced soul, but yet unregenerate, in the person of whom it is supposed, by some, that Paul speaks. 2. To the struggles that are in a renewed sanctified soul, but yet in a state of imperfection; as other appr…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15-16. For, &c.--better, “For that which I do I know not”; that is, “In obeying the impulses of my carnal nature I act the slave of another will than my own as a renewed man?” for, &c.--rather, “for not what I would (wish, desire) that do I, but what I hate that I do.”