Romans 7:17
Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
KJV
νυνὶ δὲ οὐκέτι ἐγὼ κατεργάζομαι αὐτὸ ἀλλὰ ἡ ἐνοικοῦσα ἐν ἐμοὶ ἁμαρτία.
Greek NT
Nunc autem jam non ego operor illud, sed quod habitat in me peccatum.
Vulgate
So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.
ASV
Now then it is no more I that do it: but sin that dwelleth in me.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
κατεργάζομαι
katergazomai
verb · 22×
νυνί
nuni
adverb · 21×
οὐκέτι
ouketi
adverb · 47×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἁμαρτία
amartia
noun · 173×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἐνοικέω
enoikeo
verb · 6×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: οἰκοῦσα | Treg/NIV/RP: οἰκοῦσα | WH: ἐνοικοῦσα
- οἰκοῦσα — SBLGNT
- οἰκοῦσα — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
- ἐνοικοῦσα — Westcott-Hort
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Chapter 7.—Of the Cause of Cain’s Crime and His Obstinacy, Which Not Even the Word of God Could Subdue. But though God made use of this very mode of address which we have been endeavoring to explain, and spoke to Cain in that form by which He was wont to accommodate Himself to our first parents and converse with them as a companion, what good influence had it on Cain? Did he no…
He finally describes the thirty-second year of his age, the most memorable of his whole life, in which, being instructed by Simplicianus concerning the conversion of others, and the manner of acting, he is, after a severe struggle, renewed in his whole mind, and is converted unto God. Chapter 1. He, Now Given to Divine Things, and Yet Entangled by the Lusts of Love, Consults Si…
Those people whom God according to his purpose calls into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord and regenerates by the Holy Spirit, he also sets free from the reign and slavery of sin, though in this life not entirely from the flesh and from the body of sin.
God Who is good and altogether good and more than good, Who is goodness throughout, by reason of the exceeding riches of His goodness did not suffer Himself, that is His nature, only to be good, with no other to participate therein, but because of this He made first the spiritual and heavenly powers: next the visible and sensible universe: next man with his spiritual and sentie…
Cross-references
- 2Cor 8:12 — For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
- Jas 4:5 — Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
- Phil 3:8 — Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win
- Rom 4:7 — Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
- Rom 7:8 — But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
- Rom 7:18 — For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
- Rom 7:20 — Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
- Rom 7:20 — Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
- Rom 7:23 — But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
- Rom 8:1 — There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.