What does Romans mean by "I do not do what I want"?
Romans describes an inner conflict where the speaker does not do the good he wants but does the evil he does not want. The passage repeats the pattern to show a struggle between desire and action. See Romans 7:15 and Romans 7:19.
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Rom 7:15-19
15For 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.
16But if what I don`t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
17So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
18For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don`t find it doing that which is good.
19For the good which I desire, I don`t do; but the evil which I don`t desire, that I practice.