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Reference: Allow
Hastings
To 'allow' generally means in AV 'to approve,' as Ro 7:15 'that which I do I allow not.' But in Ac 24:16 it has the mod. sense, admit.
To 'allow' generally means in AV 'to approve,' as Ro 7:15 'that which I do I allow not.' But in Ac 24:16 it has the mod. sense, admit.
Therefore I always exercise and discipline myself [mortifying my body, deadening my carnal affections, bodily appetites, and worldly desires, endeavoring in all respects] to have a clear (unshaken, blameless) conscience, void of offense toward God and toward men.
For I do not understand my own actions [I am baffled, bewildered]. I do not practice or accomplish what I wish, but I do the very thing that I loathe [ which my moral instinct condemns].