Romans 7:15-25

Goodspeed(i) 15 I do not understand what I am doing, for I do not do what I want to do; I do things that I hate. 16 But if I do what I do not want to do, I acknowledge that the Law is right. 17 In reality, it is not I that do these things; it is sin, which has possession of me. 18 For I know that nothing good resides in me, that is, in my physical self; I can will, but I cannot do what is right. 19 I do not do the good things that I want to do; I do the wrong things that I do not want to do. 20 But if I do the things that I do not want to do, it is not I that am acting, it is sin, which has possession of me. 21 I find the law to be that I who want to do right am dogged by what is wrong. 22 My inner nature agrees with the divine law, 23 but all through my body I see another principle in conflict with the law of my reason, which makes me a prisoner to that law of sin that runs through my body. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who can save me from this doomed body? 25 Thank God! it is done through Jesus Christ our Lord! So mentally I am a slave to God's law, but physically to the law of sin.