Roma 7:20

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Jadi jika aku berbuat apa yang tidak aku kehendaki, maka bukan lagi aku yang memperbuatnya, tetapi dosa yang diam di dalam aku.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Jadi jika aku berbuat apa yang tidak aku kehendaki, maka bukan lagi aku yang memperbuatnya, tetapi dosa yang diam di dalam aku.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tetapi jikalau aku ini perbuat barang yang aku tiada gemar itu, maka bukanlah lagi aku ini yang melakukan itu, melainkan dosa yang diam di dalam diriku.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ For we knowe, that the lawe is spirituall: but I am carnall, solde vnder sinne. ¹⁵ For that which I do, I alowe not. For what I woulde, that do I not: but what I hate, that do I. ¹⁶ If I do nowe that which I woulde not, I consent vnto the lawe, that it is good. ¹⁷ Nowe then, it is not I that do it: but sinne that dwelleth in me. ¹⁸ For I knowe, that in me, that is to say in my fleshe, dwelleth no good thyng. For to wyll, is present with me: but I fynde no meanes to perfourme that which is good. ¹⁹ For the good that I woulde, do I not: But the euyll which I woulde not, that do I. ²⁰ And yf I do that I woulde not, then is it not I that doth it, but sinne that dwelleth in me. ²¹ I fynde then by the lawe, that when I woulde do good, euyll is present with me. ²² For I delite in the lawe of God, after the inwarde man: ²³ But I see another lawe in my members, rebellyng agaynst the lawe of my mynde, and subduyng me vnto the lawe of sinne, which is in my members.

Bible Verse Review
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it is no: Romans 7:17

Reciprocal: John 13:10 - needeth Romans 7:15 - what Romans 8:1 - no

Cross-References

Psalms 104:6
Thou coueredst it with the deepe, lyke as with a garment: the waters stande vpon the hilles.

Jeremiah 3:23
Truely, in vayne is health hoped for from the hylles, be they neuer so many: but the health of Israel standeth only vpon God our Lorde.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now if I do that I would not,.... The same conclusion is formed here, as in Romans 7:17, not with any view to excuse himself from blame in sinning, but to trace the lusts of his heart, and the sins of his life, to the source and fountain of them, the corruption of his nature; and to ascribe them to the proper cause of them, which was not the law of God, nor the new man, but sin that dwelt in him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Now if I do ... - This verse is also a repetition of what was said in Romans 7:16-17.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 7:20. It is no more I — My will is against it; my reason and conscience condemn it. But sin that dwelleth in me-the principle of sin, which has possessed itself of all my carnal appetites and passions, and thus subjects my reason and domineers over my soul. Thus I am in perpetual contradiction to myself. Two principles are continually contending in me for the mastery: my reason, on which the light of God shines, to show what is evil; and my passions, in which the principle of sin works, to bring forth fruit unto death.

This strange self-contradictory propensity led some of the ancient philosophers to imagine that man has two souls, a good and a bad one; and it is on this principle that Xenophon, in his life of Cyrus, causes Araspes, a Persian nobleman, to account for some misconduct of his relative to Panthea, a beautiful female captive, whom Cyrus had entrusted to his care:-"O Cyrus, I am convinced that I have two souls; if I had but one soul, it could not at the same time pant after vice and virtue; wish and abhor the same thing. It is certain, therefore, that we have two souls; when the good soul rules, I undertake noble and virtuous actions; but when the bad soul predominates, I am constrained to do evil. All I can say at present is that I find my good soul, encouraged by thy presence, has got the better of my bad soul." See Spectator, vol. viii. No. 564. Thus, not only the ancients, but also many moderns, have trifled, and all will continue to do so who do not acknowledge the Scriptural account of the fall of man, and the lively comment upon that doctrine contained in the seventh chapter of the Epistle to the Romans.