Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

I Agree The Law Is Good, But The Sin In Me Produces Behavior I Hate

¹⁴ For^[a] we know that the Law is spiritual. But I am made-of-flesh^[b], having been sold under sin. ¹⁵ For I do not understand^[c] what^[d] I am producing. For I am not practicing this which I am wanting, but I am doing this which I am hating. ¹⁶ But if I am doing this which I am not wanting, I am agreeing-with^[e] the Law— that it is good. ¹⁷ And now I am no longer producing it, but the sin^[f] dwelling in me is.

I Know I Am Not Good, For I Cannot Do The Good I Want To Do

¹⁸ For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh. For the wanting is present in me, but the producing the good is not. ¹⁹ For I am not doing the good which I am wanting, but I am practicing this evil which I am not wanting. ²⁰ But if I am doing this which I am not wanting, I am no longer producing it, but the sin^[g] dwelling in me is.

So The Evil Inside Me Enslaves Me To The Law of Sin And Death In Me

²¹ I find then the law^[h] in me, the one wanting to do the good, that the evil is present in me. ²² For I am rejoicing-with^[i] the Law of God according-to^[j] the inner person. ²³ But I am seeing a different law in my body-parts waging-war-against^[k] the law of my mind, and taking me captive^[l] under the law of sin existing in my body-parts. ²⁴ I am a wretched^[m] person! Who will deliver me from this^[n] body of ^[o] death? ²⁵ But thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself am serving the Law of God with the mind, but the law of sin with the flesh.