 | Barbara DeGrote-Sorensen - Religion - 130 pages
...horses. Harnessed and ready for the journey. Which way to go? Whom will I serve? SCRIPTURE: Romans 7:15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. ROM. 7:15 (NTV) ACTION IDEA: Where in your life have you felt pulled two ways? Think about your time,... | |
 | Charles W. Price - Religion - 1995 - 140 pages
...conflict between his capacity for godliness and his capability for godliness in his letter to the Romans. "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do" (Rom. 7: 15). There are things in life, he is saying, that I know are right and that I want to do.... | |
 | George A. Mather, Larry A. Nichols - Business & Economics - 1995 - 94 pages
...away" (Isa. 64:6). "We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do" (Rom. 7:14 -15). "We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way" (Isa.... | |
 | Brian D. Ingraffia - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 308 pages
...Heidegger's conception of Dasein in his fundamental ontology. CHAPTER 9 Inauthenticity and the flesh As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. Paul, Romans 7:17 Proximalfy, it is not "I," in the sense of my own Self, that "am," but rather the... | |
 | Henry Cloud, John Townsend - Family & Relationships - 1995 - 148 pages
...badness involves great loss and struggle for all of us — as the apostle Paul testifies when he cries, "For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do " (Rom. 7:15). God's solution for resolving good-bad issues is a perfect God dying for a sinful people,... | |
 | Melba Padilla Maggay - Religion - 1996 - 162 pages
...degenerates into rationalization, and is often powerless to govern recalcitrant passions. As Paul puts it, "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do, but what I hate, I do." ( Romans 7:15 ) Those who know the fierceness of what it takes to struggle against personal failure... | |
 | Gary Holloway, Randall J. Harris, Mark Cothran Black, Randy Harris - Religion - 1998 - 372 pages
...are bad. Good and evil wage a war in the heart of each individual. Paul's self-revelation fits all, "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do" (Rom. 7:15). In order to unravel the mystery of the human contradiction, we must ask and answer several... | |
 | Alan W. Gomes - Religion - 1998 - 100 pages
...away" (Isa. 64:6). "We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do" (Rom. 7:14-15). "We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way" (Isa.... | |
 | Joe Beam - Forgiveness of sin - 1998 - 264 pages
...through different temptations. Paul, too, struggled with wanting to do one thing while doing another. "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do ... the evil I do not want to do — this I keep on doing."6 In my office that day, I opened the Scripture... | |
 | Charles R. Gerber - Christian life - 1999 - 130 pages
...in Romans 7:14-20: We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself... | |
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I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 
