¹⁷ But in fact it is no longer I who do it but sin that dwells within me.

²⁰ Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it but sin that dwells within me.

⁸ More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ^{(A) 9} and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law but one that comes through faith in Christ,^[a] the righteousness from God based on faith.^(B)

¹⁸ For I know that the good does not dwell within me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do the good lies close at hand, but not the ability.^(A)

⁵ Or do you suppose that the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the spirit that God caused to dwell^[a] in us desire envy?^{(A) 6} But God gives all the more grace; therefore it says,

¹² For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.^(A)

²³ but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.^(A)