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15 For I do not understand[a] what[b] I am producing. For I am not practicing this which I am wanting, but I am doing this which I am hating. 16 But if I am doing this which I am not wanting, I am agreeing-with[c] the Law— that it is good. 17 And now I am no longer producing it, but the sin[d] dwelling in me is.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 7:15 Or, ‘acknowledge’ as representing his true desires.
  2. Romans 7:15 For example, this coveting, v 7.
  3. Romans 7:16 Or concurring-with.
  4. Romans 7:17 When God says not to do it, Paul agrees and does not want to do it, but sin produces it in him anyway. Thus it is sin, not God’s Law, that causes his death. The sin in him is against him and against God! How extremely sinful it truly is! This proves v 14b; Paul is under the dominion of sin.

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