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14 For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am of the flesh, sold into slavery under sin.
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We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
15 I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
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I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good.
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And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.
17 But in fact it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me.
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As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.
18 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.
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For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.
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For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.
20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that 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.
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