14. We know that the law is holy. But I am not. I have been sold to be a slave of sin.
15. I don't understand what I do. I don't do what I want to do. Instead, I do what I hate to do.
16. I do what I don't want to do. So I agree that the law is good.
17. As it is, I am no longer the one who does these things. It is sin living in me that does them.
18. I know there is nothing good in my sinful nature. I want to do what is good, but I can't.
19. I don't do the good things I want to do. I keep on doing the evil things I don't want to do.
20. I do what I don't want to do. But I am not really the one who is doing it. It is sin living in me.
21. Here is the law I find working in me. When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
22. Deep inside me I find joy in God's law.
23. But I see another law working in the parts of my body. It fights against the law of my mind. It makes me a prisoner of the law of sin. That law controls the parts of my body.
24. What a terrible failure I am! Who will save me from this sin that brings death to my body?