Romans 7:15–25

¹⁵For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise. ¹⁶But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that it is right. ¹⁷Now then it is no longer I that do it, but the sin that dwells in me. ¹⁸For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right I find not. ¹⁹For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do. ²⁰But if what I do not will, this I practise, it is no longer I that do it, but the sin that dwells in me. ²¹I find then the law upon me who will to practise what is right, that with me evil is there. ²²For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man: ²³but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition to the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which exists in my members. ²⁴O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of this body of death? ²⁵I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself with the mind serve God’s law; but with the flesh sin’s law.