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15 For I do not understand my own actions [I am baffled and bewildered by them]. I do not practice what I want to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate [and yielding to my human nature, my worldliness—my sinful capacity].

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15 I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate.

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14-16 I can anticipate the response that is coming: “I know that all God’s commands are spiritual, but I’m not. Isn’t this also your experience?” Yes. I’m full of myself—after all, I’ve spent a long time in sin’s prison. What I don’t understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I act another, doing things I absolutely despise. So if I can’t be trusted to figure out what is best for myself and then do it, it becomes obvious that God’s command is necessary.

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15 For I do not understand my own actions. For (A)I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.

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15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.(A)

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