For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh The corrupt and degenerate self, my animal appetites and passions, debased and enslaved as they are by sin through the fall; or in me, while I was in the flesh, chap. Romans 8:8, and not in the spirit, Romans 7:9; dwelleth no good thing Ουκ οικει αγαθον, good dwelleth not. Hence he asserts, in the place just referred to, that they who are in the flesh, whose reason and conscience are under the government of passion and appetite, or who are in their natural unrenewed state, cannot please God. For to will To incline, desire, and even purpose; is present with me Παρακειται μοι, lies near me, or, is easy for me; but how to perform Κατεργαζεσθαι, statedly to practise, or, habitually work, (see on Romans 7:15;) that which is good Καλον, excellent, I find not Have not sufficient ability. For the good that I would, &c. See on Romans 7:15; Romans 7:17, for an explanation of this and the next verse.
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Romans 7:18-20
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.