Romans 7:19
Modern Translations
New International Version
For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing.

New Living Translation
I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.

English Standard Version
For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.

Berean Study Bible
For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.

New American Standard Bible
For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.

NASB 1995
For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.

NASB 1977
For the good that I wish, I do not do; but I practice the very evil that I do not wish.

Amplified Bible
For the good that I want to do, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.

Christian Standard Bible
For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do.

Contemporary English Version
Instead of doing what I know is right, I do wrong.

Good News Translation
I don't do the good I want to do; instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I don't do the good I want to do. Instead, I do the evil that I don't want to do.

International Standard Version
For I don't do the good I want to do, but instead do the evil that I don't want to do.

NET Bible
For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

New King James Version
For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.

King James 2000 Bible
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

New Heart English Bible
For the good which I desire, I do not do; but the evil which I do not desire, that I practice.

World English Bible
For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice.

American King James Version
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

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

A Faithful Version
For the good that I desire to do, I am not doing; but the evil that I do not desire to do, this I am doing.

Darby Bible Translation
For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For I doe not the good thing, which I would, but the euil, which I would not, that do I.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For the good that I woulde, do I not: But the euyll which I woulde not, that do I.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
I fynde not. For ye good that I wyll, do I not: but the euell which I wil not, that do I.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
For I doo not yt good thinge which I wold: but that evill do I which I wolde not.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
for the good that I will, I do not do; but the evil that I do not will, this I practice.

Berean Literal Bible
For the good that I desire, I do not do; but the evil that I do not want, this I practice.

Young's Literal Translation
for the good that I will, I do not; but the evil that I do not will, this I practise.

Smith's Literal Translation
For not what good I would, do I; but the evil I would not, this I do.

Literal Emphasis Translation
For I do not do the inherently good I wish, but that which I do not want this bad I keep on practicing.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For the good which I will, I do not; but the evil which I will not, that I do.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For I do not do the good that I want to do. But instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
It was not the good that I wanted that I did, but the evil that I did not want to do, that I did.

Lamsa Bible
For it is not the good that I wish to do, that I do: but it is the evil that I do not wish to do, that I do.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
For the good that I wish to do, I do not; but the evil that I wish not to do, this I do.

Godbey New Testament
for the good which I will I do not; but the evil which I do not will, that I do.

Haweis New Testament
For I do not the good which I wish: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

Mace New Testament
for the good that I purpose to do, I do not: but the evil which I resolve against, that I do.

Weymouth New Testament
For what I do is not the good thing that I desire to do; but the evil thing that I desire not to do, is what I constantly do.

Worrell New Testament
For the good that I wish, I do not; but the evil which I wish not, this I practice.

Worsley New Testament
For I do not the good that I would; but the evil which I would not, this I do.
















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