14 We know that the Law is spiritual;
but I am a mortal, sold as a slave to sin.
15 I
do not understand what I do; for I don't do what I would like to do, but instead
I do what I hate.
16 Since what I do is
what I don't want to do, this shows that I agree that the Law is right.
17 So I am not really the one who does this
thing; rather it is the sin that lives in me.
18 I know that good does not live in me—that is, in my
human nature. For even though the desire to do good is in me, I am not able to
do it.
19 I don't do the good I want to
do; instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do.
20 If I do what I don't want to do, this means that I am no
longer the one who does it; instead, it is the sin that lives in me.
21 So I find that this law is at
work: when I want to do what is good, what is evil is the only choice I
have.
22 My inner being delights in the law of God.
23 But I see a different law at work in my body—a law that fights against the law which my mind approves of. It makes me a prisoner to the law of sin which is at work in my body.
24 What an unhappy man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is taking me to death?
25 Thanks be to God, who does this through our Lord Jesus Christ! This, then, is my condition: on my own I can serve God's law only with my mind, while my human nature serves the law of sin.
22 My inner being delights in the law of God.
23 But I see a different law at work in my body—a law that fights against the law which my mind approves of. It makes me a prisoner to the law of sin which is at work in my body.
24 What an unhappy man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is taking me to death?
25 Thanks be to God, who does this through our Lord Jesus Christ! This, then, is my condition: on my own I can serve God's law only with my mind, while my human nature serves the law of sin.
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