CLV(i)
9 Now I lived, apart from law, once, yet at the coming of the precept Sin revives. Yet I died,
10 and it was found that, to me, the precept for life, this is for death."
11 For Sin, getting an incentive through the precept, deludes me, and through it, kills me."
12 So that the law, indeed, is holy, and the precept holy and just and good."
13 Became good, then, death to me? May it not be coming to that! But Sin, that it may be appearing Sin, is producing death to me through good, that Sin may become an inordinate sinner through the precept."
14 For we are aware that the law is spiritual, yet I am fleshly, having been disposed of under Sin."
15 For what I am effecting I know not, for not what I will, this I am putting into practice, but what I am hating, this I am doing."
16 Now if what I am not willing, this I am doing, I am conceding that the law is ideal."
17 Yet now it is no longer I who am effecting it, but Sin making its home in me."
18 For I am aware that good is not making its home in me (that is, in my flesh), for to will is lying beside me, yet to be effecting the ideal is not."
19 For it is not the good that I will that I am doing, but the evil that I am not willing, this I am putting into practice."
20 Now if what I am not willing, this I am doing, it is no longer I who am effecting it, but Sin which is making its home in me."
21 Consequently, I am finding the law that, at my willing to be doing the ideal, the evil is lying beside me."
22 For I am gratified with the law of God as to the man within,
23 yet I am observing a different law in my members, warring with the law of my mind, and leading me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members."
24 A wretched man am I! What will rescue me out of this body of death? Grace!