Romans 7:17

“Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.”

King James Version (KJV)

Other Translations for Romans 7:17

Now then, it is no more I that doe it: but sinne that dwelleth in me.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.
- American Standard Version (1901)

So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.
- Basic English Bible

In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
- Berean Standard Bible Bible

Now then [it is] no longer *I* [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.
- Darby Bible

Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
- Douay-Rheims Bible

So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.
- English Revised Version

So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
- World English Bible

Bible Commentary for Romans 7:17

Wesley's Notes for Romans 7:17


7:17 It is no more I that can properly be said to do it, but rather sin that dwelleth in me - That makes, as it were, another person, and tyrannizes over me.



People's Bible Notes for Romans 7:17


Ro 7:17 Now then it is no more I that do it. Not Paul as a freeman who sins, but Paul as the bond-servant of sin (see Ro 7:15), and hence it is sin who reigns over him, who sins in him, as the instrument. He describes the sinful state as one of bondage. How often a man does what he "would not"!

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