Romans 7:18–25 · BSB
7:18
I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
7:19
For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.
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7:20
And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
7:21
So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
7:22
For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
7:23
But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.
7:24
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
7:25
Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
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