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Law Cannot Save from Sin

13 Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, asold under sin.  
15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. aFor what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.  
16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
17 But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
18 For I know that ain me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.  
19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.
20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good.
22 For I adelight in the law of God according to bthe inward man.  
23 But aI see another law in bmy members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.  
24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me afrom this body of death?  
25 aI thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin. 
Verse Comparison: Romans 7:15

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American Standard Version
For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practise; but what I hate, that I do.

Amplified® Bible
For I do not understand my own actions [I am baffled, bewildered]. I do not practice {or} accomplish what I wish, but I do the very thing that I loathe [which my moral instinct condemns].

Contemporary English Version
In fact, I don't understand why I act the way I do. I don't do what I know is right. I do the things I hate.

Darby English Version
For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.

Good News Bible
I do not understand what I do; for I don't do what I would like to do, but instead I do what I hate.

International Standard Version
I don't understand what I am doing. For I don't do what I want to do, but instead do what I hate.

King James Version
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

New American Standard Bible
For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I {would} like to {do,} but I am doing the very thing I hate.

New International Version
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.

New King James Version
For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
For what I do, I do not understand; for I do not practice what I would like to do, but I do the very thing I hate.

Young's Literal Translation
for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this I do.


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