11. For sin, having had occasion, deceived me by the commandment and by it killed me.
12. So the law is truly holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
13. Was then that which is good made death unto me? No, in no wise. But sin, to show itself sin by that which is good, worked death in me, making sin exceedingly sinful by the commandment.
14. For we now know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold unto subjection by sin.
15. For that which I do, I do not understand, and not even the good that I desire is what I do; but what I hate, that is what I do.
16. If then I do that which I do not desire, I approve that the law is good.
17. So that it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.
18. And I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing; for I have the desire, but I am not able to perform that which is good.
19. For I do not do the good that I desire; but the evil which I do not desire, that I do.
20. And if I do that which I do not desire, I am not working, but sin that dwells in me.
21. So that, desiring to do good, I find this law: evil is natural unto me.
22. For I delight with the law of God with the inward man,
23. but I see another law in my members which rebels against the law of my mind, bringing captive unto the law of sin which is in my members.
24. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25. The grace of God, by Jesus, the Christ, our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.