Romans 7:18-8:2

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹⁸ For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh.^(A) For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it. ¹⁹ For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do. ²⁰ Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but it is the sin that lives in me. ²¹ So I discover this principle:^[a](B) When I want to do what is good, evil is with me. ²² For in my inner self^[b] I joyfully agree with God’s law.^{(C) 23} But I see a different law in the parts of my body,^[c](D) waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body.^{[d] 24} What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this dying body?^{(E) 25} I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord!^[e](F) So then, with my mind I myself am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh, to the law of sin.

The Life-Giving Spirit

8 Therefore, no condemnation^(G) now exists for those in^(H) Christ Jesus,^{[f](I) 2} because the Spirit’s law of life^(J) in Christ Jesus has set you^[g] free from the law of sin and of death.^(K)