Romans 7:15-25 ▼

15 For what I am working out, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.

16 But if I do the very thing I do not want, I agree with the Law, that it is good.

17 So now, no longer am I the one working it out, but sin which dwells in me.

18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the working out of the good is not.

19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.

20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one working it out, but sin which dwells in me.

21 I find then the principle that in me evil is present—in me who wants to do good.

22 For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,

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

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

25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.