Romans 7:15-25

15For 1I do not understand what I am doing; for I am not practicing 2what I want to do, but I do the very thing I hate. 16However, if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with 3the Law, that the Law is good. 17But now, 4no longer am I the one doing it, but sin that dwells in me. 18For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my 5flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. 19For 6the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20But if I do the very thing I do not want, 7I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that dwells in me.

21I find then 8the 9principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. 22For I joyfully agree with the law of God 10in 11the inner person, 23but I see 12a different law in 13the parts of my body waging war against the 14law of my mind, and making me a prisoner 15of 16the law of sin, the law which is in 17my body’s parts. 24Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from 1819the body of this 20death? 2521Thanks 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 22the law of sin.