Romans 7:13-25 - Internal Conflict With Sin

¹³ Did that which is good, then, result in death to me? Of course not! It was sin that did it, so that it might show itself as sin, for by means of that good thing it brought about my death, so that through the command sin might appear surpassingly sinful. ¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am made of flesh that is frail, sold into slavery to sin. ¹⁵ Indeed, I do not understand what I do, for I do not practice what I want to do, but I am always doing what I hate. ¹⁶ But if I am always doing what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is right. ¹⁷ Now really it is not I that am doing these things, but it is sin which has its home within me. ¹⁸ For I know that nothing good has its home in me; that is, in my lower self; I have the will but not the power to do what is right. ¹⁹ Indeed, I do not do the good things that I want to do, but I do practice the evil things that I do not want to do. ²⁰ But if I do the things that I do not want to do, it is really not I that am doing these things, but it is sin which has its home within me. ²¹ So I find this law: When I want to do right, the wrong is always in my way. ²² For in accordance with my better inner nature I approve God's law, ²³ but I see another power operating in my lower nature in conflict with the power operated by my reason, which makes me a prisoner to the power of sin which is operating in my lower nature. ²⁴ Wretched man that I am! Who can save me from this deadly lower nature? ²⁵ Thank God! It has been done through Jesus Christ our Lord! So in my higher nature I am a slave to the law of God, but in my lower nature, to the law of sin.