12. So then the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
13. Did the good, then, become death for me? Of course not! Sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin, worked death in me through the good, so that sin might become sinful beyond measure through the commandment.
14. We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold into slavery to sin.
15. What I do, I do not understand. For I do not do what I want, but I do what I hate.
16. Now if I do what I do not want, I concur that the law is good.
17. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
18. For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh. The willing is ready at hand, but doing the good is not.
19. For I do not do the good I want, but I do the evil I do not want.
20. Now if [I] do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
21. So, then, I discover the principle that when I want to do right, evil is at hand.
22. For I take delight in the law of God, in my inner self,
23. but I see in my members another principle at war with the law of my mind, taking me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.