Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
For, etc.—better, "For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is in my flesh, any good."
for to will—"desire."
is present with me; but how to perform that which is good—the supplement "how," in our version, weakens the statement.
I find not—Here, again, we have the double self of the renewed man; "In me dwelleth no good; but this corrupt self is not my true self; it is but sin dwelling in my real self, as a renewed man."
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Romans 7:18:
Song of Solomon 1:5
Song of Solomon 5:2
Romans 7:13
Romans 7:14
Romans 7:25
Galatians 5:17
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