{"id":355,"date":"2008-05-19T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1002things.com\/?p=355"},"modified":"2022-03-18T17:25:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T23:25:31","slug":"romans-717-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"Romans 7:17-18"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><span id=\"en-NKJV-28109\" class=\"text Rom-7-17\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup class=\"versenum\">17\u00a0<\/sup>But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span id=\"en-NKJV-28110\" class=\"text Rom-7-18\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup class=\"versenum\">18\u00a0<\/sup>For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>But now = this being the case (not referring to time)<\/h3>\n<h3>Do = practice, as in <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=352\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">verse 15<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>no longer = it can no longer be maintained as an argument<\/h3>\n<h3>flesh (as in <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=341\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Romans 6:19<\/span><\/a>) = human nature apart from divine influence<\/h3>\n<h3>good (<em>agathos <\/em>\u2014 first usage in verse 18) = beneficial<\/h3>\n<h3>nothing good \u2014 even those things that seem good from a natural point of view are void of goodness without a right relationship with God<\/h3>\n<h3>good (<em>kalos<\/em> \u2014 second usage in verse 18) = intrinsically good<\/h3>\n<h3>Paul is saying that he is incapable of doing anything beneficial in his flesh that will produce real good.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17\u00a0But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18\u00a0For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=355\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6522,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/6522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}