007:015 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.
007:016 But if I do that which I do not desire to do, I admit
the excellence of the Law,
007:017 and now it is no longer I that do these things, but the sin
which has its home within me does them.
007:018 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.
007:019 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.
007:020 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.
007:021 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.
007:022 For in my inmost self all my sympathy is with the Law of God;
007:023 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.
007:024 (Unhappy man that I am! who will rescue me from this death-burdened body?