20. So if I do what I don’t want to do, then I am not really the one doing it. It is the sin living in me that does it.
21. So I have learned this rule: When I want to do good, evil is there with me.
22. In my mind I am happy with God’s law.
23. But I see another law working in my body. That law makes war against the law that my mind accepts. That other law working in my body is the law of sin, and that law makes me its prisoner.
24. What a miserable person I am! Who will save me from this body that brings me death?
25. I thank God for his salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord! So in my mind I am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful self I am a slave to the law of sin.