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Romans 7:16

And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Conscience;   Good and Evil;   Justification;   Man;   Stoicism;   Scofield Reference Index - Flesh;   Law of Moses;   The Topic Concordance - Evil;   Law;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Rebellion against God;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Goodness;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Sexuality, Human;   Sin;   Spirituality;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Law;   Sin;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Sanctification;   Sin;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Custodian;   Death;   Freedom;   Romans, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Justification, Justify;   Law;   Liberty;   Man;   Romans, Epistle to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Demon;   Law;   Lust;   Regeneration;   Regeneration (2);   Romans Epistle to the;   Sin;   Sin (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - 11 To Desire, Will, Purpose;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Saul of Tarsus;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Good;   Law in the New Testament;   Pauline Theology;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Yeẓer Ha-Ra';  

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
If I know what I'm doing is wrong, then that shows the Code is good.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good.
Legacy Standard Bible
But if I do the very thing I do not want, I agree with the Law, that it is good.
Bible in Basic English
But, if I do that which I have no mind to do, I am in agreement with the law that the law is good.
Darby Translation
But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that [it is] right.
World English Bible
But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
If then I do what I would not, I consent to the law, that it is good.
Weymouth's New Testament
But if I do that which I do not desire to do, I admit the excellence of the Law,
King James Version (1611)
If then I doe that which I would not, I consent vnto the Law, that it is good.
Literal Translation
But if I do what I do not will, I agree with the Law, that it is good.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf I do now that which I wil not, the graunte I, that the lawe is good.
Mace New Testament (1729)
if then I do what I in my mind am against, the consent of my mind is, that the law is right.
Amplified Bible
Now if I habitually do what I do not want to do, [that means] I agree with the Law, confessing that it is good (morally excellent).
American Standard Version
But if what I would not, that I do, I consent unto the law that it is good.
Revised Standard Version
Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Yf I do now that which I wolde not I graute to the lawe that it is good.
Update Bible Version
But if what I do not want, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
Webster's Bible Translation
If then I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that [it is] good.
Young's Literal Translation
And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the law that [it is] good,
New Century Version
And if I do not want to do the hated things I do, that means I agree that the law is good.
New English Translation
But if I do what I don't want, I agree that the law is good.
Berean Standard Bible
And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.
Contemporary English Version
Although I don't do what I know is right, I agree that the Law is good.
Complete Jewish Bible
Now if I am doing what I don't want to do, I am agreeing that the Torah is good.
English Standard Version
Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good.
Geneva Bible (1587)
If I doe then that which I woulde not, I consent to the Lawe, that it is good.
George Lamsa Translation
So then if I do that which I do not wish to do, I can testify concerning the law that it is good.
Hebrew Names Version
But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
International Standard Version
Now if I do what I don't want to do, I agree that the law is good.
Etheridge Translation
And if the thing that I would not, I do, I witness of the law that it is good. [fn]
Murdock Translation
And if I do what I would not, I testify of the law, that it is right.
New King James Version
If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
New Living Translation
But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good.
New Life Bible
When I do the thing I do not want to do, it shows me that the Law is right and good.
English Revised Version
But if what I would not, that I do, I consent unto the law that it is good.
New Revised Standard
Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, if what I wish not the same I do, I consent unto the law that it is right.
Douay-Rheims Bible
If then I do that which I will not, I consent to the law, that it is good.
King James Version
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
Lexham English Bible
But if what I do not want to do, this I do, I agree with the law that it is good.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If I do nowe that which I woulde not, I consent vnto the lawe, that it is good.
Easy-to-Read Version
And if I don't want to do what I do, that means I agree that the law is good.
New American Standard Bible
However, if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, that the Law is good.
Good News Translation
Since what I do is what I don't want to do, this shows that I agree that the Law is right.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And if Y do that thing that Y wole not, Y consente to the lawe, that it is good.

Contextual Overview

14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am made out of flesh, sold into sin's power. 15 For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good. 17 So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it. 19 For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but it is the sin that lives in me. 21 So I discover this principle: When I want to do what is good, evil is with me. 22 For in my inner self I joyfully agree with God's law. 23 But I see a different law in the parts of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I consent: Romans 7:12, Romans 7:14, Romans 7:22, Psalms 119:127, Psalms 119:128

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 9:13 - gavest Job 33:27 - right Psalms 119:47 - which Psalms 119:140 - pure Amos 5:15 - Hate Micah 6:8 - what is Romans 7:15 - what Philippians 1:10 - ye 1 Timothy 1:8 - the law

Cross-References

Genesis 7:1
Then the Lord said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before Me in this generation.
Genesis 7:2
You are to take with you seven pairs, a male and its female, of all the clean animals, and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and its female,
Genesis 7:3
and seven pairs, male and female, of the birds of the sky—in order to keep offspring alive on the face of the whole earth.
Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now I will make it rain on the earth 40 days and 40 nights, and I will wipe off from the face of the earth every living thing I have made."
Genesis 7:5
And Noah did everything that the Lord commanded him.
Genesis 7:10
Seven days later the waters of the flood came on the earth.
Deuteronomy 33:27
The God of old is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you and commands, "Destroy!"
Psalms 46:2
Therefore we will not be afraid, though the earth trembles and the mountains topple into the depths of the seas,
Proverbs 3:23
Then you will go safely on your way; your foot will not stumble.
Matthew 25:10
"When they had gone to buy some, the groom arrived. Then those who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was shut.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If then I do that which I would not,.... This is a corollary, or an inference from what he had related of his own experience; that since what he did, though it was contrary to the law of God, yet was what he did not will nor allow of, but hated, it must be a clear point, that he

consented to the law, that it was good; lovely and amiable; that it forbad those things which were hateful, and commanded those things which were desirable to a good man; and so is acknowledged to be a very beautiful rule of obedience, walk, and conversation.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I consent unto the law - The very struggle with evil shows that it is not loved, or approved, but that the Law which condemns it is really loved. Christians may here find a test of their piety. The fact of struggling against evil, the desire to be free from it, and to overcome it, the anxiety and grief which it causes, is an evidence that we do not love it, and that there. fore we are the friends of God. Perhaps nothing can be a more decisive test of piety than a long-continued and painful struggle against evil passions and desires in every form, and a panting of the soul to be delivered from the power and dominion of sin.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 7:16. If then I do that which I would not, c.] Knowing that the law condemns it, and that therefore it must be evil. I consent unto the law I show by this circumstance that I acknowledge the law to be good.


 
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