Romans 7:18 Parallel Translations

I know that nothing good lives in me; that is, nothing good lives in my corrupt nature. Although I have the desire to do what is right, I don't do it.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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.

ASV:

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good is not.

BBE:

For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.

DBY:

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right I find not.

ERV:

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good is not.

WEY:

For I know that in me, that is, in my lower self, nothing good has its home; for while the will to do right is present with me, the power to carry it out is not.

WBS:

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.

WEB:

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.

YLT:

for I have known that there doth not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and to work that which is right I do not find,

Romans 7:18 Cross References

XREF:

John 3:6 "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 7:25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.

Romans 8:3 For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

7:18 {12} For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but {a} [how] to perform that which is good I find not.
(12) This vice, or sin, or law of sin, wholly possesses those men who are not regenerated, and hinders them or holds those back who are regenerated.
(a) This indeed is appropriate to the man whom the grace of God has made a new man: for where the Spirit is not, how can there be any strife there?

PNT:

7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh). In his unregenerated human nature. In this
dwelleth no good thing. The tendency of the carnal nature of man is evil. Its conflict with the will and conscience is now described.
To will is present with me. Who has not had the same experience? How often we resolve to do better, and break out resolves as soon as temptation comes!

WES:

7:18 In my flesh - The flesh here signifies the whole man as he is by nature.

MHC:

7:18-22 The more pure and holy the heart is, it will have the more quick feeling as to the sin that remains in it. The believer sees more of the beauty of holiness and the excellence of the law. His earnest desires to obey, increase as he grows in grace. But the whole good on which his will is fully bent, he does not do; sin ever springing up in him, through remaining corruption, he often does evil, though against the fixed determination of his will. The motions of sin within grieved the apostle. If by the striving of the flesh against the Spirit, was meant that he could not do or perform as the Spirit suggested, so also, by the effectual opposition of the Spirit, he could not do what the flesh prompted him to do. How different this case from that of those who make themselves easy with regard to the inward motions of the flesh prompting them to evil; who, against the light and warning of conscience, go on, even in outward practice, to do evil, and thus, with forethought, go on in the road to perdition! For as the believer is under grace, and his will is for the way of holiness, he sincerely delights in the law of God, and in the holiness which it demands, according to his inward man; that new man in him, which after God is created in true holiness.

CONC:

Carry Conscious Desire Dwell Dwelleth Dwells Flesh Home Lower Mind Nature Nothing Perform Power Present Self Sinful Willing Within

Carry Conscious Desire Dwell Dwelleth Dwells Find Flesh Good Home Lower Mind Nature Perform Power Present Right Self Sinful Willing Within Work

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