11. For sin, receiving an opportunity through the commandment, seduced me, and, through the law, sin killed me.
12. And so, the law itself is indeed holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.
13. Then was what is good made into death for me? Let it not be so! But rather sin, in order that it might be known as sin by what is good, wrought death in me; so that sin, through the commandment, might become sinful beyond measure.
14. For we know that the law is spiritual. But I am carnal, having been sold under sin.
15. For I do things that I do not understand. For I do not do the good that I want to do. But the evil that I hate is what I do.
16. So, when I do what I do not want to do, I am in agreement with the law, that the law is good.
17. But I am then acting not according to the law, but according to the sin which lives within me.
18. For I know that what is good does not live within me, that is, within my flesh. For the willingness to do good lies close to me, but the carrying out of that good, I cannot reach.
19. For I do not do the good that I want to do. But instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do.