14. We know that the Law is spiritual, but I’m made of flesh and blood, and I’m sold as a slave to sin.
15. I don’t know what I’m doing, because I don’t do what I want to do. Instead, I do the thing that I hate.
16. But if I’m doing the thing that I don’t want to do, I’m agreeing that the Law is right.
17. But now I’m not the one doing it anymore. Instead, it’s sin that lives in me.
18. I know that good doesn’t live in me—that is, in my body. The desire to do good is inside of me, but I can’t do it.
19. I don’t do the good that I want to do, but I do the evil that I don’t want to do.
20. But if I do the very thing that I don’t want to do, then I’m not the one doing it anymore. Instead, it is sin that lives in me that is doing it.
21. So I find that, as a rule, when I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me.
22. I gladly agree with the Law on the inside,
23. but I see a different law at work in my body. It wages a war against the law of my mind and takes me prisoner with the law of sin that is in my body.
24. I’m a miserable human being. Who will deliver me from this dead corpse?
25. Thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then I’m a slave to God’s Law in my mind, but I’m a slave to sin’s law in my body.