Romans 7:17

17 So then nowe it is not I that do it but synne that dwelleth 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 because I wote not what I doo. For what I wold that do I not: but what I hate that do I.

16 Yf I do now that which I wolde not I graute to the lawe that it is good.

17 So then nowe it is not I that do it but synne that dwelleth in me.

18 For I knowe that in me (that is to saye in my flesshe) dwelleth no good thinge. To will is present with me: but I fynde no meanes to performe that which is good.

19 For I doo not yt good thinge which I wold: but that evill do I which I wolde not.