14. For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.
15. For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
16. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good.
17. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
18. For I know that nothing good dwells 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. 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, 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 I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,
23. but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.