Romans 7:17-23

17So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.

18And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t.

19I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.

20But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.

21I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong.

22I love God’s law with all my heart.

23But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me.