9. But I was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but I died.
10. And the commandment, which was for life, was found, as to me, itself to be unto death:
11. for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12. So that the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13. Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be the thought. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good; in order that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
14. For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
15. For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.
16. But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that it is right.
17. Now then it is no longer I that do it, but the sin that dwells in me.
18. For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right I find not.
19. For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.
20. But if what I do not will, this I practise, it is no longer I that do it, but the sin that dwells in me.
21. I find then the law upon me who will to practise what is right, that with me evil is there.