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Selected Verse: Romans 7:19 - King James

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Ro 7:19 King James For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
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 Rom 7:22 is such as cannot be ascribed, with the least show of truth, to any but the renewed.
 
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22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.