Romans 7:10–25

¹⁰and I died. The commandment that was meant for life^v resulted in death for me. ¹¹For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me,^w and through it killed me. ¹²So then, the law is holy,^x and the commandment is holy and just and good. ¹³Therefore, did what is good become death to me? Absolutely not!^y But, sin, in order to be recognized as sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment, sin might become sinful beyond measure.

THE PROBLEM OF SIN IN US

¹⁴For we know that the law is spiritual,^z but I am of the flesh,^B sold^aa as a slave under sin.^{ab 15}For I do not understand what I am doing,^ac because I do not practice what I want to do,^ad but I do what I hate. ¹⁶Now if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good. ¹⁷So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is sin living in me. ¹⁸For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh.^ae For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it. ¹⁹For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do. ²⁰Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one that does it, but it is the sin that lives in me. ²¹So I discover this law:^Caf When I want to do what is good,^C evil is present with me. ²²For in my inner self^E I delight in God’s law,^{ag 23}but I see a different law in the parts of my body,^Fah waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body. ²⁴What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?^{ai 25}Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!^aj So then, with my mind I myself am serving the law of God, but with my flesh, the law of sin.