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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.
21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do what is good, 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 inmost self,
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For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;
23 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.
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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 rescue 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, 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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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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