Romans 7:17-25

New International Version

¹⁷ As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.^{(A) 18} For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.^[a](B) For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. ¹⁹ For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.^{(C) 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.^(D)

²¹ So I find this law at work:^(E) Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. ²² For in my inner being^(F) I delight in God’s law;^{(G) 23} but I see another law at work in me, waging war^(H) against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin^(I) at work within me. ²⁴ What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?^{(J) 25} Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!^(K)

So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law,^(L) but in my sinful nature^[b] a slave to the law of sin.^(M)