8. Then sin, when there was occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of lust. For without the law sin was as if it were dormant.
9. So that without the law I lived for some time; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10. And I found that the same commandment, which was unto life, was mortal unto me.
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.