5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the

law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. 6 But now we have been

delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should

serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For

what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice;

but what I hate, that I do. 16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the

law that it is good. 17 But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in

me. 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will

is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. 19 For the

good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.

20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells

in me. 21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do

good. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 23 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. 24 O

wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 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.

Romans 7:5-6, 14-25 NASB