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18 Yet I know that it does not fully dominate me, (that is in my flesh) but as far as good is concerned, the choice is easy for me to make, but to do it, that is difficult. 19 For it is not the good that I wish to do, that I do: but it is the evil that I do not wish to do, that I do. 20 Now if I do that which I do not wish, then it is not I who do it, but the sin which dominates me. 21 I find therefore, that the law agrees with my conscience when I wish to do good, but evil is always near, distracting me. 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and it makes me a captive to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this mortal body? 25 I thank God through our LORD Jesus Christ. Now therefore with my mind I am a servant of the law of God; but with my flesh I am a servant of the law of sin. Romans 7:18-25, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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