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15 I don't know what I'm doing, because I don't do what I want to do. Instead, I do the thing that I hate.
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I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
16 But if I'm doing the thing that I don't want to do, I'm agreeing that the Law is right.
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Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good.
17 But now I'm not the one doing it anymore. Instead, it's sin that lives in me.
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But in fact it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me.
18 I know that good doesn't live in me—that is, in my body. The desire to do good is inside of me, but I can't do it.
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For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it.
19 I don't do the good that I want to do, but I do the evil that I don't want to do.
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For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.
20 But if I do the very thing that I don't want to do, then I'm not the one doing it anymore. Instead, it is sin that lives in me that is doing it.
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Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me.
21 So I find that, as a rule, when I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me.
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So I find it to be a law that when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand.
22 I gladly agree with the Law on the inside,
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For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self,
23 but I see a different law at work in my body. It wages a war against the law of my mind and takes me prisoner with the law of sin that is in my body.
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but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
24 I'm a miserable human being. Who will deliver me from this dead corpse?
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Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
25 Thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then I'm a slave to God's Law in my mind, but I'm a slave to sin's law in my body.
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Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh I am a slave to the law of sin.
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