“Even if the heretics who are opposed to the Creator suppose that in the next sentence Paul was speaking against him when he says, "I know that in me, that is in my flesh, there dwells no good thing," yet let them read what precedes and follows this. For before it he says, "But sin which dwells in me," which explains w…”
Clement of Alexandria, 3th c. — The Stromata Book 3
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20Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
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18For 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.
19For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
— Romans 7:20 —
21I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: