¹⁴We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual,^o sold^p as a slave to sin.^q ¹⁵I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.^r ¹⁶And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.^s ¹⁷As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.^t ¹⁸For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.^c^u For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. ¹⁹For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.^v ²⁰Now 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.^w

²¹So I find this law at work:^x Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. ²²For in my inner being^y I delight in God’s law;^z ²³but I see another law at work in me, waging war^a against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin^b at work within me. ²⁴What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?^c

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

cOr my flesh

Cross references

o 1 Co 3:1
p 1 Ki 21:20, 25; 2 Ki 17:17
qSee Ro 6:16
rver 19; Gal 5:17
sSee ver 12
tver 20
uver 25; See Gal 5:24
vver 15
wver 17
xver 23, 25
y Eph 3:16
z Ps 1:2; 40:8
a Gal 5:17; Jas 4:1; 1 Pe 2:11
bSee Ro 6:16
c Ro 6:6; 8:2