Romans 7:11-25

11For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.

12So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

13Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

14For we know that the law is spiritual – but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

15For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want – instead, I do what I hate.

16But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good.

17But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.

18For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.

19For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!

20Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.

21So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

22For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.

23But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

24Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.