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.^(A)

²¹ So I find this law at work:^(B) Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. ²² For in my inner being^(C) I delight in God’s law;^{(D) 23} but I see another law at work in me, waging war^(E) against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin^(F) at work within me.

³ For what the law was powerless^(A) to do because it was weakened by the flesh,^[a](B) God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh^(C) to be a sin offering.^[b](D) And so he condemned sin in the flesh,