Romans 7:13-25

13Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? 1May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

14For we know that the Law is 2spiritual, but I am 3of flesh, 4sold 56into bondage to sin. 15For what I am doing, 7I do not understand; for I am not practicing 8what 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 9the Law, confessing that the Law is good. 17So now, 10no 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 11flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. 19For 12the 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, 13I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

21I find then 14the 15principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. 22For I joyfully concur with the law of God 16in 17the inner man, 23but I see 18a different law in 19the members of my body, waging war against the 20law of my mind and making me a prisoner 21of 22the law of sin which is in my members. 24Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from 2324the body of this 25death? 2526Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh 27the law of sin.