Romans 7:19 meaning and explanation
For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.
Romans 7:19, Berean Standard Bible
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Paul speaks in the first person about the struggle of someone who agrees with God's law yet keeps failing in practice. In the surrounding verses he has just said that nothing good lives in his flesh, meaning his unaided human strength apart from God.
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