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Romans 7

The Conflict Within

For what I am doing I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I want, but what I hate, this I do.

But if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin dwelling in me.

For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the desire is present with me, but the doing of the good is not. For the good that I want, I do not do, but the evil that I do not want, this I practice.

But if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin dwelling in me.

So I find this law: when I want to do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God in the inner man, but I see another law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.

Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself with the mind serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.