 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that I do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.  Kidd's Own Journal - Page 3621853Full view - About this book
 | Henry Forster Burder - Religious thought - 1825 - 388 pages
...for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not: For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil that I would not, that I do." How powerful, then, is the inducement to pray without ceasing, that He who has all power over the spirit... | |
 | 1825 - 196 pages
...1 'ind not. 19 For the gond that 1 would, 1 do not : hut ihe evil which I would not, that 1 do. 20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that !o it, hut t-in that dtvelleth in me. find then a law, that when 1 would do gond, evil is present with... | |
 | John Evans - 1825 - 562 pages
...renewed, ver. 18. " In me, that is in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing," ver. 19. " The good that I would, I do not ; but the evil that I would not, that do 1," that is, this is too often my case, ver. 23. " I see another law in my members warring against... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 698 pages
...D. вО. for to will is present with me ; but haw to perform that which is good I find not, ver. 18. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more 1 that do it, bat sin that dwelleth in me, 20. But I see another law in my members, warring against... | |
 | John Owen - Puritans - 1826 - 546 pages
...with full consent, they conceive they prove sufficiently from that of the apostle, For the good that I would, I do not, but the evil that I would not, that...more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I answer, first, that the saints cannot sin but with their whole wills or full consents, is undeniably... | |
 | Oliver Reywood - 1826 - 626 pages
...two different natures in the child of God, like two distinct persons ; so Paul saith, Rom. vii. 20, " If I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me." Such a distinction he often makes. These different natures have opposite... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1826 - 644 pages
...and dead in us, and that we no longer abide in that state of slavery, as to say, " The good that I would, I do not ; but the evil that I would not, that I do.",3. In the next place, we are to inquire in what degree this is to be effected ; for though in... | |
 | Christian life - 1827 - 418 pages
...lurks within, and would feel and say with Paul, " the good that I would I do not ; but the evil which I would not, that I do ; now, if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me : 0 wretched man that 1 am, who shall deliver me from the body of this... | |
 | Oliver Reywood - 1827 - 634 pages
...have done any thing that is good, it is not I, but the grace of God in me. Alas, ' the good that I would, I do not ; but the evil that I would not, that I do .' There are abundant defects in my best duties, and I dare not stand by the holiest of my performances... | |
 | Oliver Heywood - 1827 - 634 pages
...have done any thing that is good, it is not I, but the grace of God in me. Alas, ' the good that I would, I do not ; but the evil that I would not, that I do .' There are abundant defects in my best duties, and I dare not stand by the holiest of my performances... | |
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