For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.
Parallel translations
- KJV For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
- BSB For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.
- NKJV For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.
- NASB For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.
- NLT I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.
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- Rom 7:15For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
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