Romans 7:10–25

¹⁰And the commandment, ^swhich was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. ¹¹For sin, taking ^ooccasion by the commandment, ^tdeceived me, and by it slew me. ¹²Wherefore ^uthe law is holy, and the commandment holy, and ^xjust, and ^ygood. ¹³Was then that which is good made death unto me? ^lGod forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

¹⁴For we know that the law is ^zspiritual: but I am ^zcarnal, ^asold under sin. ¹⁵For that which I do I ^†allow not: for ^bwhat I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. ¹⁶If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto ^cthe law that it is good. ^17dNow then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. ¹⁸For I know that ^ein me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: ^bfor to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. ¹⁹For ^bthe good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. ^20dNow if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. ²¹I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. ²²For ^fI delight in the law of God after ^gthe inward man: ²³But I see ^hanother law in ⁱmy members, ^kwarring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. ²⁴O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from ^||the ^lbody of this death? ^25mI thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.