Charles Spurgeon Commentary Romans 7:21

"I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is present." — Romans 7:21 (ASV)

I find then a law,

Or rule.

I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

Speaking for myself, I can say that, often, when I am most earnest in prayer, stray thoughts will come into my mind to draw me away from the holy work of supplication; and when I am most intently aiming at humility, then the shadow of pride falls upon me. Do not gracious people generally find it so? If their experience is like that of the apostle Paul, or like that of many another child of God whose biography one delights to read, it is so, and it will be so.