World English Bible

Romans 7:20

“But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.”

Verse in context — Romans 7

For 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.

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

But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

For I delight in God's law after the inward man,

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