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9 I was once alive and without law, but when the command came, sin awoke and then I died;
10 and the command that should have meant life in my case proved to mean death.
11 The command gave sin an opening and sin deceived me and killed me with it.
12 So the Law itself is holy, and each command is holy, just, and good.
13 Did what was good, then, prove the death of me? Certainly not! It was sin that did so, so that it might be recognized as sin, because even through something that was good it effected my death, so that through the command it might appear how immeasurably sinful sin was.
14 We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am physical, sold into slavery to sin.
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?