Romans 7:14-25

New American Standard Bible 1995

The Conflict of Two Natures

¹⁴ For we know that the Law is ^(A)spiritual, but I am ^(B)of flesh, ^(C)sold ^[a](D)into bondage to sin. ¹⁵ For what I am doing, ^(E)I do not understand; for I am not practicing ^(F)what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. ¹⁶ But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with ^(G)the Law, confessing that the Law is good. ¹⁷ So now, ^(H)no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. ¹⁸ For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my ^(I)flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. ¹⁹ For ^(J)the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. ²⁰ But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, ^(K)I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

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