Romans 7:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

Romans 7:19 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 7:15
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

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. 19)

19-21. For, &c.--The conflict here graphically described between a self that “desires” to do good and a self that in spite of this does evil, cannot be the struggles between conscience and passion in the unregenerate, because the description given of this “desire to do good” in Ro 7:22 is such as cannot be ascribed, with the least show of truth, to any but the renewed.