Romans 7:17

17 But now I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that lives in me.

Romans 7:17 Meaning and Commentary

Romans 7:17

Now then, it is no more I that do it
This is another inference, deduced from what is before said, that since he did not approve, but hated what he did, and willed the contrary, it was not he as spiritual, as born again, as a new man, a new creature, that did it; see ( 1 John 3:9 ) . He says,

But sin that dwelleth in me;
the old man, the carnal I, the evil present with him, the law in his members; which not only existed in him, and wrought in him, and that at times very strongly, but dwelt in him, had its abode in him, as it has in all regenerate persons, and will have, as long as they are in the body.

Romans 7:17 In-Context

15 For what I am doing I do not understand, because what I want [to do], this I do not practice, but what I hate, this I do.

16 But if what I do not want [to do], this I do, I agree with the law that [it is] good.

17 But now I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that lives in me.

18 For I know that good does not live in me, that is, in my flesh. For the willing is present in me, but the doing [of] the good [is] not.

19 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.