Romans 7:14-25 - The Conflict In Us
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.