15 For (A)I do not understand what I am doing; for I am not practicing (B)what I want to do, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 However, if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with (C)the Law, that the Law is good. 17 But now, (D)no longer am I the one doing it, but sin that dwells in me. 18 For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my (E)flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. 19 For (F)the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20 But if I do the very thing I do not want, (G)I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that dwells in me.

21 I find then (H)the [a]principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. 22 For I joyfully agree with the law of God [b]in (I)the inner person, 23 but I see (J)a different law in [c]the parts of my body waging war against the (K)law of my mind, and making me a prisoner [d]of (L)the law of sin, the law which is in [e]my body’s parts. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from [f](M)the body of this (N)death? 25 (O)Thanks 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 (P)the law of sin.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 7:21 Lit law
  2. Romans 7:22 Or with respect to
  3. Romans 7:23 Lit my parts waging
  4. Romans 7:23 Lit in
  5. Romans 7:23 Lit my parts
  6. Romans 7:24 Or this body of death

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