Romans 7:15–25

¹⁵I 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. ¹⁷But in fact it is no longer I who do it but sin that dwells within me. ¹⁸For 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. ²⁰Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it but sin that dwells within me.

²¹So I find it to be a law that, when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand. ²²For 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? ²⁵Thanks be to God^h 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.