Romans 7:18-25

King James Version

¹⁸For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

¹⁹For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

²⁰Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

²¹I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

²²For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

²³But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

²⁴O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

²⁵I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

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Romans 7:18-25

New International Version

¹⁸For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.^[a]^(A) For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. ¹⁹For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.^(B) ²⁰Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.^(C)

²¹So I find this law at work:^(D) Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. ²²For in my inner being^(E) I delight in God’s law;^(F) ²³but I see another law at work in me, waging war^(G) against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin^(H) at work within me. ²⁴What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?^(I) ²⁵Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!^(J)