16. But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good.
17. So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.
18. And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t.
19. I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.
20. But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.
21. I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong.
22. I love God’s law with all my heart.
23. But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me.
24. Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?