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17 Now then [it is] no longer *I* [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right [I find] not.

19 For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.

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17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.(A) 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[a](B) For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 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.(C)

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  1. Romans 7:18 Or my flesh