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20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
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Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.
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So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,
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For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;
23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
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but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.
24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
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What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?
25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
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Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
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