Romans 7:15
Modern Translations
New International Version
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.

New Living Translation
I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. 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.

New American Standard Bible
For I do not understand what I am doing; for I am not practicing what I want to do, but I do the very thing I hate.

NASB 1995
For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.

NASB 1977
For that which I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.

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].

Christian Standard Bible
For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate.

Contemporary English Version
In fact, I don't understand why I act the way I do. I don't do what I know is right. I do the things I hate.

Good News Translation
I do not understand what I do; for I don't do what I would like to do, but instead I do what I hate.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I don't realize what I'm doing. I don't do what I want to do. Instead, I do what I hate.

International Standard Version
I don't understand what I am doing. For I don't practice what I want to do, but instead do what I hate.

NET Bible
For I don't understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want--instead, I do what I hate.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

New King James Version
For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.

King James 2000 Bible
For that which I do I know not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

New Heart English Bible
For I do not know what I am doing. For I do not practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

World English Bible
For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

American King James Version
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

American Standard Version
For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practise; but what I hate, that I do.

A Faithful Version
Because what I am working out myself, I do not know. For what I do not desire to do, this I do; moreover, what I hate, this is what I do.

Darby Bible Translation
For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.

English Revised Version
For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practise; but what I hate, that I do.

Webster's Bible Translation
For that which I do, I allow not: for what I would, that I do not; but what I hate, that I do.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For I alow not that which I do: for what I would, that do I not: but what I hate, that do I.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For that which I do, I alowe not. For what I woulde, that do I not: but what I hate, that do I.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
because I knowe not what I do. For I do not yt I will, but what I hate, yt do I.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
because I wote not what I doo. For what I wold that do I not: but what I hate that do I.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practice, but what I hate, this I do.

Berean Literal Bible
For what I do, I do not understand. For what I want, this I do not do; but what I hate, this I do.

Young's Literal Translation
for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this I do.

Smith's Literal Translation
For what I work I know not: for what I would not, this I do; but what I hate, this I do.

Literal Emphasis Translation
For what I work out, I do not know, for what I want not this I practice, but what I hate this I do.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For that which I work, I understand not. For I do not that good which I will; but the evil which I hate, that I do.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For I do things that I do not understand. For I do not do the good that I want to do. But the evil that I hate is what I do.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For that which I committed I did not understand, neither was it anything that I chose, but I was doing what I hated.

Lamsa Bible
For I do not know what I do: and I do not do the thing which I want, but I do the thing which I hate. That is exactly what I do.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
For what I do, I know not: for that which I wish to do, this I do not; but that which I hate, this I do.

Godbey New Testament
For that which I do, I know not: for I do that which I do not will; but I do that which I hate.

Haweis New Testament
For that which I am doing I approve not: for not the thing which I wish, that do I practise; but the very thing I hate, that I do.

Mace New Testament
what I do I allow not: for what my mind leads me to, that do I not; but what I have an aversion to, that I do.

Weymouth New Testament
For what I do, I do not recognize as my own action. What I desire to do is not what I do, but what I am averse to is what I do.

Worrell New Testament
For what I accomplish, I know not; for not what I wish, this do I practice; but what I hate, this I do.

Worsley New Testament
For that which I do, I allow not: for I do not that which I would; but what I hate, this I do.
















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