Bible verse
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 · BSB
The verses around it, from Romans 7.
11 For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.
12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
14 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 admit that the law is good.
17 In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
19 For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.
KJV
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
ASV
For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practise; but what I hate, that I do.
ERV
For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practise; but what I hate, that I do.
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