◄ Romans 7:19 ►
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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.

New Revised Standard Version
For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.

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

New American Bible
For I do not do the good I want, but I do the evil I do not want.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Context
Struggling with Sin
…18For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is to say, in my flesh, that which is good. For to will is present with me: but to accomplish that which is good, I find not. 19For the good which I will, I do not: but the evil which I will not, that I do. 20Now if I do that which I will not, it is no more I that do it: but sin that dwelleth in me.…
Cross References
Mark 5:5
And he was always day and night in the monuments and in the mountains, crying and cutting himself with stones.

Romans 7:15
For that which I work, I understand not. For I do not that good which I will: but the evil which I hate, that I do.

Romans 7:18
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