Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. Keep alert and pray. Otherwise temptation will overpower you. For though the spirit is willing enough, the body is weak. All Rights Reserved. Site Map. Join Our Mailing List. Share This Page: Facebook Twitter. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. Instead, I do what I hate.
English Standard Version For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Berean Study Bible I do not understand what I do.
For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do. For what I want, this I do not do; but what I hate, this I do. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. Amplified Bible For I do not understand my own actions [I am baffled and bewildered by them].
I do not practice what I want to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate [and yielding to my human nature, my worldliness—my sinful capacity]. I don't do what I know is right. I do the things I hate. For I do not that good which I will; but the evil which I hate, that I do. I don't do what I want to do.
His mind that was serving God stopped these sinful desires. Here he was taken captive by the law of sin in his flesh, so that he did things that he hated. Someone who is willfully committing sin is not doing what he hates, because his mind approves of it. When desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin. Conception takes place when we consent to the desire with our mind — then sin is born. James Such a person is serving the law of sin with his mind.
Paul was not writing about this kind of sin in Romans 7. He was serving the law of God with his mind, but at the same time, sin that was still present in his flesh would manifest itself without his approval — he was serving the law of sin with his flesh. These reactions from the flesh could come as thoughts or feelings that he had to battle down temptation , or as actual actions or words, which never passed his consciousness as a temptation.
The law is spiritual, but Paul found that he was carnal, sold under sin. With his mind he served God, but he also noticed that nothing good dwelt in his flesh. His mind which served God was against his flesh which served sin , and this created an opposition of will in his body. Romans Who will deliver me from this body of death? Before Jesus overcame and left us with an example to follow, it was not possible for mankind to completely overcome all sin in the flesh. But Jesus has now given us the Holy Spirit, who can show us the way through the flesh.
Like Paul, when we have repented and begun to serve God, we have a new mindset, and it is no longer we who serve sin. What comes from our flesh is not done willfully.
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