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Romans 7:19

World English Bible

For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.

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Romans 7:19 in other translations

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

Romans 7:19 · American Standard Version

Romans 7:19 in context

  1. 17So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
  2. 18For 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.
  3. 19For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.
  4. 20But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
  5. 21I find then the law that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.