 | Theodore Gerhardt Tappert - 1959 - 742 pagini
...powers. Concerning this the apostle writes, 8 "I know that nothing good dwells within me." And again, "I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do." Likewise, "I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to... | |
 | 1971 - 564 pagini
...and intent one serves the law of God, but with the actuality and the flesh he serves the law of sin for "I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do" (Rom.7:19).36 The freedom of the Christian is the freedom of the Spirit, a freedom from sin and death... | |
 | George Wolfgang Forell - 1975 - 324 pagini
...nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do. (Rom. 7:18, 19) Note that here a great leader and apostle of Christendom is speaking. This is not the description... | |
 | Anthony A. Hoekema - 1975 - 160 pagini
...fall so far short of what I ought to be, for even that great saint, the Apostle Paul, had to confess, 'I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.' " Understanding Romans 7:13-25 in the way described above will help us come to greater clarity on the... | |
 | Elizabeth Achtemeier - 1976 - 228 pagini
...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 I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do. . . . Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? (Rom. 7:15, 18-19,24.) The... | |
 | Jung-Sun Oh - 2005 - 246 pagini
...nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer 1 that do it, but sin that dwells within me. So I find... | |
 | Theodore W. Jennings - 2006 - 244 pagini
...of what seems to be an internal conflict: "in my flesh I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do" (7:19). From the time of Augustine to that of Bultmann and even Altizer, this text has served to exemplify... | |
 | Richard S. Gilbert - 2005 - 118 pagini
...righteousness. Ovid says, "I see the right, and I approve it too, condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do." The apostle Paul said much the same thing. Or as Huck Finn says, "Being good is so much trouble, while... | |
 | Jerry Shepherd - 2005 - 74 pagini
...do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. . . . For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do" (Romans 7:15,19). Think of how many times you resolved to correct your worst fault because you knew... | |
 | Maxwell E. Johnson - 2005 - 2330 pagini
...nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me. So I find... | |
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I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do. 
