13
Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! But in order
that sin might be recognized as sin, it produced death in me through what was
good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
14
We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to
sin.
15
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I
hate I do.
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And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.
17
As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it
is sin living in me.
18
I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it
out.
19
For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil
I do not want to do-- this I keep on doing.
20
Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is
sin living in me that does it.
21
So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with
me.
22
For in my inner being I delight in God's law;
23
but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the
law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my
members.
24
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
25
Thanks be to God-- through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind
am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
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