Romans 7:15–25

¹⁵For 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.