Romans 7:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

It is no more I that do it; i.e. it is not I as spiritual or renewed, it is not my whole self, but it is sin that dwelleth in me, that inhabits in me as a troublesome inmate, that I cannot get rid of, that will not out so long as the house stands; as the fretting leprosy in the walls of a house would not out till the house itself were demolished. It is such an inhabitant as is never from home; it is not in us as a stranger for a season, but it makes its constant abode with us.

Romans 7:17

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