Romans 7:14-24

¹⁴For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold into bondage to sin. ¹⁵For I do not understand what I am doing; for I am not practicing what I want to do, but I do the very thing I hate. ¹⁶However, if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, that the Law is good. ¹⁷But now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin that dwells in me. ¹⁸For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. ¹⁹For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. ²⁰But if I do the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that dwells in me.

²¹I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. ²²For I joyfully agree with the law of God in the inner person, ²³but I see a different law in the parts of my body waging war against the law of my mind, and making me a prisoner of the law of sin, the law which is in my body’s parts. ²⁴Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?