Romans 7:14-23

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual,^(A) but I am made out of flesh,^[a] sold^(B) into sin’s power.^{(C) 15} For I do not understand what I am doing,^(D) because I do not practice what I want to do,^(E) but I do what I hate. ¹⁶ And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good. ¹⁷ So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is sin living in me. ¹⁸ For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh.^(F) For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it. ¹⁹ For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do. ²⁰ Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but it is the sin that lives in me. ²¹ So I discover this principle:^[b](G) When I want to do what is good, evil is with me. ²² For in my inner self^[c] I joyfully agree with God’s law.^{(H) 23} But I see a different law in the parts of my body,^[d](I) waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body.^[e]