Romans 7:15–25

15 I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.* 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good. 17 But in fact it is no longer I who do it but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that the good does not dwell within me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do the good lies close at hand, but not the ability.* 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it but sin that dwells within me.

21 So I find it to be a law that, when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self,* 23 but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.* 24 Wretched person that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to Godh through Jesus Christ our Lord!

So then, with my mind I am enslaved to the law of God, but with my flesh I am enslaved to the law of sin.