¹⁶ Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good.

¹² So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.^(A)

⁸ Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it legitimately;

The Inner Conflict

¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold into slavery under sin.^[a]

²² For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self,^(A)