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15 For what I do, I do not recognize as my own action. What I desire to do is not what I do, but what I am averse to is what I do. 16 But if I do that which I do not desire to do, I admit the excellence of the Law, 17 and now it is no longer I that do these things, but the sin which has its home within me does them. 18 For I know that in me, that is, in my lower self, nothing good has its home; for while the will to do right is present with me, the power to carry it out is not. 19 For what I do is not the good thing that I desire to do; but the evil thing that I desire not to do, is what I constantly do. 20 But if I do that which I desire not to do, it can no longer be said that it is I who do it, but the sin which has its home within me does it. 21 I find therefore the law of my nature to be that when I desire to do what is right, evil is lying in ambush for me. 22 For in my inmost self all my sympathy is with the Law of God; 23 but I discover within me a different Law at war with the Law of my understanding, and leading me captive to the Law which is everywhere at work in my body--the Law of sin. 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!) Romans 7:15-25, Weymouth New Testament. Public domain.
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