Romains 7:17

17 Et maintenant ce n'est plus moi qui le fais, mais c'est le péché qui habite en moi.

Romains 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.

Romains 7:17 In-Context

15 Car je ne sais pas ce que je fais: je ne fais point ce que je veux, et je fais ce que je hais.

16 Or, si je fais ce que je ne veux pas, je reconnais par là que la loi est bonne.

17 Et maintenant ce n'est plus moi qui le fais, mais c'est le péché qui habite en moi.

18 Ce qui est bon, je le sais, n'habite pas en moi, c'est-à-dire dans ma chair: j'ai la volonté, mais non le pouvoir de faire le bien.

19 Car je ne fais pas le bien que je veux, et je fais le mal que je ne veux pas.