9. And I was alive once, apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life
10. and I died, and this commandment which was to lead to life was found with respect to me to lead to death.
11. For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
12. So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
13. Therefore, did that which is good become death to me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be recognized as sin, producing death through what is good for me, in order that sin might become sinful to an extraordinary degree through the commandment.
14. For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold into slavery to sin.
15. For what I am doing I do not understand, because what I want to do, this I do not practice, but what I hate, this I do.
16. But if what I do not want to do, this I do, I agree with the law that it is good.
17. But now I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that lives in me.
18. For I know that good does not live in me, that is, in my flesh. For the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.
19. For the good that I want to do, I do not do, but the evil that I do not want to do, this I do.
20. But if what I do not want to do, this I am doing, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that lives in me.
21. Consequently, I find the principle with me, the one who wants to do good, that evil is present with me.