Romans 7:16
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18 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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.
- KJV
- If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
- WEB
- But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
- ASV
- But if what I would not, that I do, I consent unto the law that it is good.
- DARBY
- But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that [it is] right.
- BLB
- Now if what I do not want, this I do, I assent to the law, that [it is] good.
- ÅB
- Men hvis jeg gjør det som jeg ikke vil, så vitner jeg jo med loven at den er god.
- OTB
- Og hvis jeg handler mot mine egne ønsker, erkjenner jeg at loven er god.
- B1930
- Men gjør jeg det som jeg ikke vil, da vidner jeg jo med loven at den er god;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Romans 7:12
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Read in context1 Timothy 1:8
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
Read in contextRomans 7:14
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Read in contextRomans 7:22
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Read in contextPsalms 119:127–128
Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
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