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Romans 7:17 (WEB)
So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

Fathers and councils · 8

John Damascene, An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.13Book IV
“…and made Himself the way and image and pattern, in order that we, too, following in His footsteps, may become by adoption what He is Himself by nature, sons and heirs of God and joint heirs with Him.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 17.
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Augustine of Hippo, Confessions VIII.10Book VIII
““Now, then, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me,”—the punishment of a more unconfined sin, in that I was a son of Adam.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 17.
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Augustine of Hippo, On Continence Chapter 29
“For where not I, there more happily I: and, when any evil motion after man arises, unto which he, who with the mind serves the Law of God, consents not, let him say that also, “Now it is not I that do this.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 17
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Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 78
“But the Apostle says, “Now it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 17.
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XV.7Book XV
“For when the carnal part which the apostle calls sin, in that place where he says, “It is not I who do it, but sin that dwelleth in me,” that part which the philosophers also call vicious, and which ought not to lead the mind, but which the mind ought to rule and restrain by reason from illicit…” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 17.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 133
“Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 14–20.
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Tertullian, On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 46
““For the law,” says he, “of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death,”—that, surely, which he previously mentioned as dwelling in our members.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 17, 20, 23.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies Book 3
“Prius enim dixit: “Sed inhabitarts in me peccatum;” propter quod consentaneum erat dicere illud: “Non habitat in came mea bonum.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 17.
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