Romans 7:17

17 and now it is no longer I that do these things, but the sin which has its home within me does them.

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 do, I do not recognize as my own action. What I desire to do is not what I do, but what I am averse to is what I do.

16 But if I do that which I do not desire to do, I admit the excellence of the Law,

17 and now it is no longer I that do these things, but the sin which has its home within me does them.

18 For I know that in me, that is, in my lower self, nothing good has its home; for while the will to do right is present with me, the power to carry it out is not.

19 For what I do is not the good thing that I desire to do; but the evil thing that I desire not to do, is what I constantly do.