Romans 7:15–24

¹⁵For what I am doing, ^aI do not understand; for I am not practicing ^bwhat I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.

¹⁶But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with ^athe Law, confessing that the Law is good.

¹⁷So now, ^ano longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

¹⁸For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my ^aflesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.

¹⁹For ^athe good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.

²⁰But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, ^aI am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

²¹I find then ^athe ¹principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.

²²For I joyfully concur with the law of God ¹in ^athe inner man,

²³but I see ^aa different law in ¹the members of my body, waging war against the ^blaw of my mind and making me a prisoner ²of ^cthe law of sin which is in my members.

²⁴Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from ^1athe body of this ^bdeath?