Romans 7:16-25

¹⁶But if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.

¹⁷So now it is no longer I who am doing it, but the sin dwelling in me.

¹⁸Further, I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; because to will is present with me, but I do not find how to perform the good.

¹⁹Because I do not do the good that I want to do; rather I practice the evil that I do not want to do.

²⁰Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin dwelling in me.

²¹So I find this ‘law’: when I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

²²I joyfully agree with God's law according to the inner man,

²³but I see a different ‘law’ in my body parts, warring against the law of my mind and taking me captive to the law of the sin that is in my body parts.

²⁴What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

²⁵I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, sin's law.