¹⁵I don’t realize what I’m doing. I don’t do what I want to do. Instead, I do what I hate. ¹⁶I don’t do what I want to do, but I agree that God’s standards are good. ¹⁷So I am no longer the one who is doing the things I hate, but sin that lives in me is doing them.

¹⁸I know that nothing good lives in me; that is, nothing good lives in my corrupt nature. Although I have the desire to do what is right, I don’t do it. ¹⁹I don’t do the good I want to do. Instead, I do the evil that I don’t want to do. ²⁰Now, when I do what I don’t want to do, I am no longer the one who is doing it. Sin that lives in me is doing it.

²¹So I’ve discovered this truth: Evil is present with me even when I want to do what God’s standards say is good. ²²I take pleasure in God’s standards in my inner being. ²³However, I see a different standard ⸤at work⸥ throughout my body. It is at war with the standards my mind sets and tries to take me captive to sin’s standards which still exist throughout my body. ²⁴What a miserable person I am! Who will rescue me from my dying body?

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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.