 | Joe Beam - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2010 - 260 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... | |
 | Henry Gariepy - Religion - 2004 - 404 pages
...— "the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." The Civil War Within 215 For what l want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. (Romans 7:15) In the seventh chapter of Romans the apostle Paul lays bare his heart and soul. In this... | |
 | Donald M. Froess - 2004 - 106 pages
...Jesus' name, in my heart I feel as a failure. Sometimes I wonder if my walk is still, close to him. What I want to do I do not do, but what I do, is sin. I will press on to seek his face and await, his still small voice. For just one word from... | |
 | Rich Brott, Frank Damazio - Business & Economics - 2005 - 462 pages
...Nature ROMANS 7: 14-23 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... | |
 | Jennifer Vanderlaan - Health & Fitness - 2005 - 240 pages
...lazy or quick-tempered even though it has not been a part of your nature before. Romans 7:15 tells us "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do." Even Paul shouted, "What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?" (Romans... | |
 | Phyllis Clemons - Religion - 2005 - 182 pages
...the church at Rome. "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 1 do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself... | |
 | Ian Lyall - Religion - 2005 - 138 pages
...utterly sinful. "We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer... | |
 | Mike Baker - Bible - 2006 - 116 pages
...we often do the wrong instead. The apostle could relate to our plight. Paul writes in another place, "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:I5). He goes on to explain that this is a result of sin living in him. So, the law serves its... | |
 | Myles Munroe - Religion - 2005 - 545 pages
...causes us to do otherwise. The New Testament writer Paul described this dilemma perfectly when he wrote: I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do—As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing... | |
 | Jimmy Reader - Religion - 2005 - 162 pages
...shadow of my being which I do not yet fully see or understand. Paul describes that mystery in Romans 7: I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do—For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the... | |
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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. 
