13. Now, did something good cause my death? That’s unthinkable! Rather, my death was caused by sin so that sin would be recognized for what it is. Through a commandment sin became more sinful than ever.
14. I know that God’s standards in Moses’ Teachings are spiritual, but I have a corrupt nature, sold as a slave to sin.
15. I don’t realize what I’m doing. I don’t do what I want to do. Instead, I do what I hate.
16. I don’t do what I want to do, but I agree that God’s standards are good.
17. So I am no longer the one who is doing the things I hate, but sin that lives in me is doing them.