Romans 7:19-25

¹⁹For the good which I have a mind to do, I do not: but the evil which I have no mind to do, that I do.

²⁰But if I do what I have no mind to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.

²¹So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me.

²²In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,

²³But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.

²⁴How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?

²⁵I give praise to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with my mind I am a servant to the law of God, but with my flesh to the law of sin.