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Romans 7:19-24 New International Version (NIV)

19. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.

20. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

21. So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

22. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;

23. but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.

24. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?

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