For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
For that which I do I allow not, х ginooskoo (G1097)] - literally (as in margin), 'I know not;' I recognize it not, approve it not: cf. Psalms 1:6, "The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous." 'In obeying the impulses of my carnal nature I act rather as the slave of another will than my own as a renewed man.'
For what I would, that do I not - better, 'for not what I would ('what I wish' or 'desire') that I do' [the touto (G5124) here is omitted by Tischendorf on quite inferior evidence, but retained by Lachmann and Tregelles].