12. So the Law itself is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
13. So did something good bring death to me? Absolutely not! But sin caused my death through something good so that sin would be exposed as sin. That way sin would become even more thoroughly sinful through the commandment.
14. We know that the Law is spiritual, but I’m made of flesh and blood, and I’m sold as a slave to sin.
15. I don’t know what I’m doing, because I don’t do what I want to do. Instead, I do the thing that I hate.
16. But if I’m doing the thing that I don’t want to do, I’m agreeing that the Law is right.
17. But now I’m not the one doing it anymore. Instead, it’s sin that lives in me.
18. I know that good doesn’t live in me—that is, in my body. The desire to do good is inside of me, but I can’t do it.