 | Anthony A. Hoekema - 1975 - 160 pagini
...next verse contains two "for"s, only one of which is reproduced in the Revised Standard Version: "For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate." By means of these "for"s Paul is tying in what follows... | |
 | Elizabeth Achtemeier - 1976 - 228 pagini
...designs for peace and "sisterhood," we spoil it all with our slavery to evil. As Paul put it so long ago: I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. ... I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For... | |
 | Charles Primus - 1977 - 236 pagini
...relation of will to the prescriptions of law, Paul focuses on the gap between intention and action. "I do not understand my own actions .For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate" (Rom. 7:15). Carnal man, on Paul's view, is separated... | |
 | Richard F. Lovelace - 1979 - 460 pagini
...of sin is described in Romans 7: We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin. I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is... | |
 | Judith Allen Shelly, Sandra D. John - 2009 - 184 pagini
...tendencies." The apostle Paul illustrates the Christian view of the human condition when he states, "I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate" (Rom 7:15). That is hardly a "strongly positive directional... | |
 | Frank McConnell - 1991 - 161 pagini
...as crooked as corkscrews, and even a full sight of the good and true would not straighten them out: "I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. ... I can will what is right, but I cannot do it" [Rom.... | |
 | Patrick Reid - 1987 - 412 pagini
...might become sinful beyond measure. We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin. I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is... | |
 | Barbara Sorensen, David Allen Sorensen - 1992 - 132 pagini
...books of the Bible than any other writer, wrote brilliantly about this noble struggle within himself. "I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. . . . For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self,... | |
 | James Wetzel - 1992 - 274 pagini
...the law's hold on the mind.42 The contest results in the celebrated Pauline paradox of Romans 7:15, "I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate." Augustine evidently saw in his own experience of internal... | |
 | Robert Homer Ramey, Ben Campbell Johnson - 1992 - 196 pagini
...highest good for us, our will lacks the steadfastness to do what is good. Like Paul, we too confess, "I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate" (Rom. 7:15). Thus, God calls us to deny ourselves that... | |
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I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 
