Roma 7:13-20

7:13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful. 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual – but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin. ¹  7:15 For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want – instead, I do what I hate. ²  7:16 But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good. ³  7:17 But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me. 7:18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it. ⁴  7:19 For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want! 7:20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.

[7:14]  ¹ tn Grk “under sin.”

[7:15]  ² tn Grk “but what I hate, this I do.”

[7:16]  ³ tn Grk “I agree with the law that it is good.”

[7:18]  ⁴ tn Grk “For to wish is present in/with me, but not to do it.”