 | Ian Lyall - Religion - 2007 - 224 pages
...nature') can't do anything. He says, and i read from Romans 7 "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 what a wretched man I am Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through our Lord... | |
 | Rick Hathaway - Christian life - 2007 - 252 pages
...man's nature is "lazy" toward repentance because of sin. Even the "star" of the New Testament said: "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... | |
 | Augustine C. Musopole - AIDS (Disease) - 2006 - 62 pages
...(Rom. 3:23) What St. Paul describes below is a common experience of our contradictory sinful lives: "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... | |
 | Shana Jay - 2007 - 78 pages
...and over. Evidently, the apostle Paul struggled with this problem when he wrote to the early church: "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 NIV). I'd like to put in words what I feel. I want to tell you. Mother, how much you have... | |
 | Frederick M. Thompson - 2007 - 282 pages
...1 Romans 7; 14-25 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... | |
 | Hal Urban - Conduct of life - 2007 - 273 pages
...thousands of passages in the Bible the one that I personally relate to more than any other is this: 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 NIV Introduction n No one ever said it would be easy. The above was written about two... | |
 | Annette Callicutt Foley - Religion - 2007 - 150 pages
...word of God states: 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... | |
 | Curry Pikkaart - Religion - 2007 - 126 pages
...#7: Restrain Yourself (Defeat Gluttony).. 103 INTRODUCTION I identify so easily with Paul who wrote, "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do,., I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want... | |
 | Jerald D. Gort, Henry Jansen, H. M. Vroom - Philosophy - 2007 - 388 pages
...confession in the biblical New Testament book of Romans undoubtedly resonates in the hearts of many: I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do .... I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good... | |
 | Jackie Quinn - Religion - 2007 - 110 pages
...keeps us in a lonely, prideful, unfruitful place. The apostle Paul describes this struggle like this: "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). The point is, we can do nothing by our own strength, even if our intentions are good.... | |
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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. 
