Romans 7:16

16 I don't do what I want to do, but I agree that God's standards are good.

Romans 7:16 Meaning and Commentary

Romans 7:16

If then I do that which I would not
This is a corollary, or an inference from what he had related of his own experience; that since what he did, though it was contrary to the law of God, yet was what he did not will nor allow of, but hated, it must be a clear point, that he

consented to the law, that it was good;
lovely and amiable; that it forbad those things which were hateful, and commanded those things which were desirable to a good man; and so is acknowledged to be a very beautiful rule of obedience, walk, and conversation.

Romans 7:16 In-Context

14 I know that God's standards are spiritual, but I have a corrupt nature, sold as a slave to sin.

15 I don't realize what I'm doing. I don't do what I want to do. Instead, I do what I hate.

16 I don't do what I want to do, but I agree that God's standards are good.

17 So I am no longer the one who is doing the things I hate, but sin that lives in me is doing them.

18 I know that nothing good lives in me; that is, nothing good lives in my corrupt nature. Although I have the desire to do what is right, I don't do it.