17Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
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.
Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, …
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? …
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
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…
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