Romans 7:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

That in me

In my

Galatians 5:19

For to will

Philippians 3:12

Bible References

That in me

Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

The Lord

smelled the soothing aroma; and the Lord said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.

“Who can make the clean out of the unclean?
No one!

“What is man, that he should be pure,
Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

“How then can a man be just with God?
Or how can he be clean who is born of woman?

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me.

For all of us have become like one who is unclean,
And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment;
And all of us wither like a leaf,
And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

In my

For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

For what the Law could not do,

weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are:

immorality, impurity, sensuality,

For to will

For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.

Oh that my ways may be established
To keep Your statutes!

For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please.

for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.