Romans 7:18-25 ▼

18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but I cannot carry it out.

19 For I don't do the good I want to do, but instead do the evil that I don't want to do.

20 But if I do what I don't want to do, I am no longer the one who is doing it, but it is the sin that is living in me.

21 So I find this to be a principle: when I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me.

22 For I delight in the Law of God in my inner being,

23 but I see in my body a different principle waging war with the Law in my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin that exists in my body.

24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is infected by death?

25 Thank God through Jesus the Messiah, our Lord, because with my mind I myself can serve the Law of God, even while with my human nature I serve the law of sin.