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.
New American Standard Bible
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jubilee Bible 2000
For that which I do, I do not understand, and not even the good that I desire is what I do; but what I hate, that is what 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Does Saint Paul have an "imaginary" or "invisible" friend? Does Saint Paul have a conscious? Is Saint Paul schizophrenic? Is Saint Paul possessed by a daemon? The will to power is not external.