Romans 7:13-25 - Internal Conflict With Sin

¹³ Then did what was meant for my good prove fatal to me? Never! It was sin; sin resulted in death for me by making use of this good thing. This was how sin was to be revealed in its true nature; it was to use the command to become sinful in the extreme. ¹⁴ The Law is spiritual; we know that. But then I am a creature of the flesh, in the thraldom of sin. ¹⁵ I cannot understand my own actions; I do not act as I want to act; on the contrary, I do what I detest. ¹⁶ Now, when I act against my wishes, that means I agree that the Law is right. ¹⁷ That being so, it is not I who do the deed but sin that dwells within me. ¹⁸ For in me (that is, in my flesh) no good dwells, I know; the wish is there, but not the power of doing what is right. ¹⁹ I cannot be good as I want to be, and I do wrong against my wishes. ²⁰ Well, if I act against my wishes, it is not I who do the deed but sin that dwells within me. ²¹ So this is my experience of the Law: I want to do what is right, but wrong is all I can manage; ²² I cordially agree with God's law, so far as my inner self is concerned, ²³ but then I find quite another law in my members which conflicts with the law of my mind and makes me a prisoner to sin's law that resides in my members. ²⁴ Miserable wretch that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? ²⁵ God will! Thanks be to him through Jesus Christ our Lord! [Move second part of this vers to follow vs 23] (Thus, left to myself, I serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.)