13. Therefore has that which is good become death unto me? God forbid! Rather, sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was working death in me through that which is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.
14. We know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15. For what I am doing, I do not understand, for I do not practice what I will to do, but I do the very thing I hate.
16. But if I practice what I do not will to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
17. So now it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.
18. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing, for the will to do what is right is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.
19. For the good I desire to do, I do not do, but the evil I do not want is what I do.
20. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who does it, but sin that lives in me.
21. I find then a law that when I desire to do good, evil is present with me.
22. For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man,
23. but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.