Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
For I don't do the good I want to do, but instead do the evil that I don't want to do.
New American Standard Bible
For
King James Version
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Holman Bible
For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do.
A Conservative Version
For I do not do good that I want, instead, wrong that I do not want, this I do.
American Standard Version
For the good which I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I practise.
Amplified
For the good that I want to do, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.
An Understandable Version
For I do not do the good [things] I want to, but I practice the evil [things] I do not want to.
Anderson New Testament
For the good that I wish to do, I do not; but the evil that I wish not to do, this I do.
Bible in Basic English
For the good which I have a mind to do, I do not: but the evil which I have no mind to do, that I do.
Common New Testament
For I do not do the good I want to do; but the evil I do not want to do is what I do.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for the good that I purpose to do, I do not: but the evil which I resolve against, that I do.
Darby Translation
For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.
Godbey New Testament
for the good which I will I do not; but the evil which I do not will, that I do.
Goodspeed New Testament
I do not do the good things that I want to do; I do the wrong things that I do not want to do.
John Wesley New Testament
For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Julia Smith Translation
For not what good I would, do I; but the evil I would not, this I do.
King James 2000
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For the good that I want [to do], I do not do, but the evil that I do not want [to do], this I do.
Modern King James verseion
For I do not do the good that I desire; but the evil which I do not will, that I do.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For I do not that good thing which I would: but that evil do I, which I would not.
Moffatt New Testament
I cannot be good as I want to be, and I do wrong against my wishes.
Montgomery New Testament
For the good that I intend to do, I do not; but the evil which I do not; but the evil which I do not intend to do, that I am ever practising.
NET Bible
For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!
New Heart English Bible
For the good which I desire, I do not do; but the evil which I do not desire, that I practice.
Noyes New Testament
For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Sawyer New Testament
for the good which I wish I do not, but the evil which I wish not this I do.
The Emphasized Bible
For not, the good that I wish, I do, but, the evil that I do not wish, the same I practise.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For I do not the good which I wish: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Twentieth Century New Testament
I fail to do the good thing that I want to do, but the bad thing that I want not to do-that I habitually do.
Webster
For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Weymouth New Testament
For what I do is not the good thing that I desire to do; but the evil thing that I desire not to do, is what I constantly do.
Williams New Testament
Indeed, I do not do the good things that I want to do, but I do practice the evil things that I do not want to do.
World English Bible
For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice.
Worrell New Testament
For the good that I wish, I do not; but the evil which I wish not, this I practice.
Worsley New Testament
For I do not the good that I would; but the evil which I would not, this I do.
Youngs Literal Translation
for the good that I will, I do not; but the evil that I do not will, this I practise.
Themes
Flesh » What dwells in the flesh
Good and evil » Subjective conflict between
Law » Christ being the end of the law
Stoicism » Paul teaches » That the "law of the mind" is at war with the "law of the members,"
Topics
Interlinear
Hos
τοῦτο
Touto
this, therefore Trans, that, for this cause , wherefore , it, not tr,
Usage: 232
thelo
θέλω ἐθέλω
thelo
will/would, will/would have, desire, desirous, list, to will,
Usage: 136
Poieo
References
Morish
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 7:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
Internal Conflict With Sin
18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I don't do the good I want to do, but instead do the evil that I don't want to do. 20 But if I do what I don't want to do, I am no longer the one who is doing it, but it is the sin that is living in me.
Names
Cross References
Romans 7:15
I don't understand what I am doing. For I don't practice what I want to do, but instead do what I hate.