Bible Scripture Help

[Mellski]

I was wondering what the bible verse was pertaining to the Apostle Paul explaining how he is the worst sinner? Or that he says something about he is and does what he wishes he didnt? This verse is obviously blurry in my mind and I hope someone can reference the bible scripture I am thinking about.

Thanks,
Mells

 

[calluna]

I was wondering what the bible verse was pertaining to the Apostle Paul explaining how he is the worst sinner? Or that he says something about he is and does what he wishes he didnt? This verse is obviously blurry in my mind and I hope someone can reference the bible scripture I am thinking about.

There are two quite separate matters here that should not be confused.

'Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners — of whom I am the worst. But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe on him and receive eternal life.' 1 Ti 1:15-16 NIV

We should not suppose here that Paul was actually the worst of sinners, but that this was the perception, because Paul had been the dreaded scourge of the church. Those who continued to persecute Paul, with full awareness of what they were doing, must be accounted worse. The example of Paul and his conversion was ignored by these people, so because they ignored it, they become the worst of sinners, as with all subsequent persistent persecutors of the church, in fact.

'I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out, because what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do — this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer 'I' who does it, but it is sin living in me that does it. So I find this law at work: when I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God — through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.' Ro 7:18-8:1-2 NIV ed.

Here Paul is not really talking about himself, but is using his own experiences as the universal experiences of all who wrestle with sin and its guilt.

 

[LittleLambofJesus]

1 Timothy appears to be the passage you are referring to.

http://www.olivetree.com/cgi-bin/EnglishBible.htm

[Rotherham]1 Timothy 1: 14 Yet exceeding abundant was the favour of our Lord, with faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. 15 Faithful, the saying! and, of all acceptance, worthy,--that, Christ Jesus, came into the world, sinners, to save: of whom, the chief, am, I;-- 16 Nevertheless, on this account, was mercy shewn me,--that, in me, the chief, Christ Jesus might shew forth his entire longsuffering, for an ensample of them about to believe on him unto life age-abiding.

 

[Mellski]

Ok, the verse i was thinking was Ro 7:18-8:1-2. Thank you all for replying.

 

[LittleLambofJesus]

Ok, the verse i was thinking was Ro 7:18-8:1-2. Thank you all for replying.

That form of the word is also used in Romans 5:16, 18.

http://www.olivetree.com/cgi-bin/EnglishBible.htm

Romans 5:16 and not as through one sinning the gratuity, for indeed out into condemnation, but the gracious-gift out of many offences into justificiation/just-award

18 Consequently then, as through one offence into all men into condemnation, thus also through one, justification/just-award into all men into justifying of life;


2631. katakrima kat-ak'-ree-mah from 2632; an adverse sentence (the verdict):--condemnation.

2596. kata kat-ah' a primary particle; (prepositionally) down (in place or time), in varied relations (according to the case (genitive, dative or accusative) with which it is joined):--
2917. krima kree'-mah from 2919; a decision (the function or the effect, for or against ("crime")):--avenge, condemned, condemnation, damnation, + go to law, judgment.