[7:14] We know that the Law is spiritual; but I am a mortal, sold as a slave to sin.
[7:15] I do not understand what I do; for I don't do what I would like to do, but instead I do what I hate.
[7:16] Since what I do is what I don't want to do, this shows that I agree that the Law is right.
[7:17] So I am not really the one who does this thing; rather it is the sin that lives in me.
[7:18] I know that good does not live in me—that is, in my human nature. For even though the desire to do good is in me, I am not able to do it.
[7:19] I don't do the good I want to do; instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do.
[7:20] If I do what I don't want to do, this means that I am no longer the one who does it; instead, it is the sin that lives in me.
[7:21] So I find that this law is at work: when I want to do what is good, what is evil is the only choice I have.
[7:22] My inner being delights in the law of God.
[7:23] But I see a different law at work in my body—a law that fights against the law which my mind approves of. It makes me a prisoner to the law of sin which is at work in my body.
[7:24] What an unhappy man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is taking me to death?
[7:25] Thanks be to God, who does this through our Lord Jesus Christ! This, then, is my condition: on my own I can serve God's law only with my mind, while my human nature serves the law of sin.