Romans 7:10-25
Read Romans 7 in full →10and this commandment, which was 1,ato lead to life, was found 2to lead to death for me. 11For sin, ataking an opportunity bthrough the commandment, cdeceived me and through it killed me. 12aSo, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
The Conflict of Two Natures
13Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? aMay it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by working out my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would 1become utterly sinful.
14For we know that the Law is aspiritual, but I am bfleshly, chaving been sold 1,dinto bondage under sin. 15For what I am working out, aI do not understand; for I am not practicing bwhat I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. 16But if I do the very thing I do not want, I agree with athe Law, that it is good. 17So now, ano longer am I the one working it out, but sin which dwells in me. 18For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my aflesh; for the willing is present in me, but the working out of the good is not. 19For athe good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, aI am no longer the one working it out, but sin which dwells in me.
21I find then athe 1principle that in me evil is present—in me who wants to do good. 22For I joyfully concur with the law of God 1in athe inner man, 23but I see aa different law in my members, waging war against the blaw of my mind and making me a captive 1to cthe law of sin which is in my members. 24Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from 1,athe body of this bdeath? 251,aThanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh bthe law of sin.