 | Anthony A. Hoekema - 1975 - 160 Seiten
...which is reproduced in the Revised 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." By means of these "for"s Paul is tying in what follows with what he has said before. The rest of chapter... | |
 | Elizabeth Achtemeier - 1976 - 228 Seiten
...all with our slavery to evil. As Paul put it so long ago: I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. ... I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do... | |
 | Charles Primus - 1977 - 236 Seiten
...law, Paul focuses on the gap between intention and action. "I do not understand my own actions .For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate" (Rom. 7:15). Carnal man, on Paul's view, is separated off from the spiritual, the ideal realm of "the... | |
 | Richard F. Lovelace - 1979 - 460 Seiten
...that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin. I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good. . . . For I delight in the law of God,... | |
 | Hannah Arendt - 1981 - 546 Seiten
...own countervolition), starting from the Apostle Paul's early discovery of the will's impotence— "I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate"18— and going on to examine the testimony left us by the Middle Ages, beginning with Augustine's... | |
 | Peter F. Ellis - 1982 - 302 Seiten
...the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. l6Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good. "So then it is no longer I that do... | |
 | Judith Allen Shelly, Sandra D. John - 2009 - 184 Seiten
...the Christian view of the human condition when he states, "I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate" (Rom 7:15). That is hardly a "strongly positive directional tendency." Thus, we are faced with a dilemma... | |
 | Fred O. Francis, J. Paul Sampley - 1984 - 420 Seiten
...the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin. 16I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the la w is good. "So then it is no longer I that do... | |
 | Denis G. Meacham - 2004 - 148 Seiten
...yesterday. In his letter to the Romans, the apostle Paul says, "I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. ... I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do... | |
 | Tim Muldoon - 2009 - 240 Seiten
...Addressing this inner conflict we all face, St. Paul wrore, "I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hare" (Rom 7:15). The first principle can act as a knife to cut through the layers of our false selves... | |
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I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 
