For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me] (7:11)

Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good (7:12)

Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful (7:13)

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin (7:14)

For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I (7:15)

If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that [it is] good (7:16)

Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me (7:17)

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to perform that which is good I find not (7:18)

For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do (7:19)

Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me (7:20)

I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me (7:21)

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: (7:22)

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members (7:23)

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? (7:24)

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin (7:25)

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