Romans 7:10–25

¹⁰The very commandment ^sthat promised life proved to be death to me. ¹¹For sin, ^tseizing an opportunity through the commandment, ^udeceived me and through it killed me. ¹²So ^vthe law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

¹³Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. ¹⁴For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, ^wsold under sin. ¹⁵For I do not understand my own actions. For ^xI do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. ¹⁶Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with ^ythe law, that it is good. ¹⁷So now ^zit is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. ¹⁸For I know that nothing good dwells ^ain me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. ^19bFor I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. ²⁰Now if I do what I do not want, ^cit is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

²¹So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. ²²For ^dI delight in the law of God, ^ein my inner being, ²³but I see in my members ^fanother law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. ²⁴Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from ^gthis body of death? ²⁵Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.