Romans 7:16-25

¹⁶But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

¹⁷So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

¹⁸For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

¹⁹For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.

²⁰But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

²¹I find then the law that, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

²²For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,

²³but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

²⁴What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this 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.