Romans 7:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸For 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.

Romans 7:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Psalms 51:5
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
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 7:25
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

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Conscience Creation Depravity of Man Fasting Gentleness God Good and Evil Guilt

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. 18)

18. For, &c.--better, “For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is in my flesh, any good.” for to will--“desire.” is present with me; but how to perform that which is good--the supplement “how,” in our version, weakens the statement. I find not--Here, again, we have the double self of the renewed man; “In me dwelleth no good; but this corrupt self is not my true self; it is but sin dwelling…