17 So now (A)it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells (B)in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 19 (C)For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, (D)it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For (E)I delight in the law of God, (F)in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members (G)another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.

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