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For 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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A Believer's Struggle
While some debate exists, most commentators (like Calvin, Gill, and Henry) argue Paul is describing the internal conflict of a genuine Christian. An unbeliever is carried along by sin, but a believer has a new nature that loves God's law and hates sin. This creates the intense struggle Paul describes, where one's actions don't always align with their deepest, renewed desires.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For that which I do. That is, the evil which I do, the sin of which I am conscious, and which troubles me.
I allow not. I …
I know not (ου γινωσκω). "I do not recognize" in its true nature. My spiritual perceptions are dulled, blinded by sin ([Reference …
19th Century
Anglican
That which I do I allow not.—Rather, that which I perform I do not know. I act blindly, and without any conscious direction of th…
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Baptist
For that which I do I allow not:
I often do that which I do not justify, which I do not wish to do again, which I abhor myself for d…
At the outset Paul wants it understood that he is not depreciating the law, for it is “spiritual” (GK 4461)—that is, emanating from God (vv.22, 25)…
16th Century
Protestant
For what I do I know not, etc. He now comes to a more particular case, that of a man already regenerated, in whom both the things…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For that which I do, I allow not The apostle having cleared the law from the charge of being the cause either of sin…
Compared with the holy rule of conduct in the law of God, the apostle found himself so very far short of perfection that he seemed to be carnal, li…
13th Century
Catholic
After showing that the law is neither evil nor the cause of an evil effect, the Apostle now proves that the law is good.
In this r…
