^7:14For we know that the law is spiritual—but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.²¹^7:15For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want—instead, I do what I hate.²²^7:16But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good.²³^7:17But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me. ^7:18For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.²⁴^7:19For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want! ^7:20Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.

^7:21So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me. ^7:22For I delight in the law of God in my inner being. ^7:23But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members. ^7:24Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? ^7:25Thanks be²⁵ to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then,²⁶ I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but²⁷ with my flesh I serve²⁸ the law of sin.

Read in Logos

Romans 7:24–25: Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks 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.

Footnotes

21 Grk “under sin.”
22 Grk “but what I hate, this I do.”
23 Grk “I agree with the law that it is good.”
24 Grk “For to wish is present in/with me, but not to do it.”
25 Most (א* A 1739 1881 𝔐 sy) read “I give thanks to God” rather than “Now thanks be to God” (א1 [B] Ψ 33 81 104 365 1506 ), the reading of . The reading with the verb (εὐχαριστῶ τῷ θεῷ, eucharistō tō theō) possibly arose from a transcriptional error in which several letters were doubled ( ). The conjunction δέ (de, “now”) is included in some as well (א1 Ψ 33 81 104 365 1506 ), but it should probably not be considered original. The support for the omission of δέ is both excellent and widespread (א* A B D 1739 1881 𝔐 lat sy), and its addition can be explained as an insertion to smooth out the transition between v. 24 and 25.
26 There is a double connective here that cannot be easily preserved in English: “consequently therefore,” emphasizing the conclusion of what he has been arguing.
27 Greek emphasizes the contrast between these two clauses more than can be easily expressed in English.
28 The words “I serve” have been repeated here for clarity.