WNT(i)
14 For we know that the Law is a spiritual thing; but I am unspiritual--the slave, bought and sold, of sin.
15 For what I do, I do not recognize as my own action. What I desire to do is not what I do, but what I am averse to is what I do.
16 But if I do that which I do not desire to do, I admit the excellence of the Law,
17 and now it is no longer I that do these things, but the sin which has its home within me does them.
18 For I know that in me, that is, in my lower self, nothing good has its home; for while the will to do right is present with me, the power to carry it out is not.
19 For what I do is not the good thing that I desire to do; but the evil thing that I desire not to do, is what I constantly do.
20 But if I do that which I desire not to do, it can no longer be said that it is I who do it, but the sin which has its home within me does it.
21 I find therefore the law of my nature to be that when I desire to do what is right, evil is lying in ambush for me.
22 For in my inmost self all my sympathy is with the Law of God;
23 but I discover within me a different Law at war with the Law of my understanding, and leading me captive to the Law which is everywhere at work in my body--the Law of sin.
24 (Unhappy man that I am! who will rescue me from this death-burdened body?
25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!) To sum up then, with my understanding, I--my true self--am in servitude to the Law of God, but with my lower nature I am in servitude to the Law of sin.