is, in my flesh.… Now if I do what I do not want, I no longer am doing it, but sin dwelling in me. (Rom 7:15–18, 20) Each of these passages is a crucial and influential statement of Pauline thought; each has received extensive commentary; each is full of puzzles for the serious reader. Yet their parallel structure is rarely noted.10 In each case, the speaker says, “I no longer am acting, but someone or something else inhabits my person as the subject of my actions.” The difference between the constructions