19. For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do.
20. Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but it is the sin that lives in me.
21. So I discover this principle: When I want to do what is good, evil is with me.
22. For in my inner self I joyfully agree with God’s law.
23. But I see a different law in the parts of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body.
24. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this dying body?
25. I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I myself am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh, to the law of sin.