Romans 7:20

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My decisions, such as they are, don’t result in actions. Something has gone wrong deep within me and gets the better of me every time.

Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one that does it, but it is the sin that lives in me.

But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.

But if what I do not want to do, this I am doing, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that lives in me.

Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

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