Romans 7:15-25

Legacy Standard Bible

¹⁵ For what I am working out, ^(A)I do not understand; for I am not practicing ^(B)what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. ¹⁶ But if I do the very thing I do not want, I agree with ^(C)the Law, that it is good. ¹⁷ So now, ^(D)no longer am I the one working it out, but sin which dwells in me. ¹⁸ For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my ^(E)flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the working out of the good is not. ¹⁹ For ^(F)the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. ²⁰ But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, ^(G)I am no longer the one working it out, but sin which dwells in me.

²¹ I find then ^(H)the ^[a]principle that in me evil is present—in me who wants to do good. ²² For I joyfully concur with the law of God ^[b]in ^(I)the inner man, ²³ but I see ^(J)a different law in my members, waging war against the ^(K)law of my mind and making me a captive ^[c]to ^(L)the law of sin which is in my members. ²⁴ Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from ^[d](M)the body of this ^(N)death? ^25 [e](O)Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh ^(P)the law of sin.