14 For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to

sin. 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I

would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. 16 But if I do the very thing I

do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good. 17 So

now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. 18 For I know

that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me,

but the doing of the good is not. 19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I

practice the very evil that I do not want. 20 But if I am doing the very thing I do

not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

21 I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do

good. 22 For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, 23 but I see a

different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind

and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members. 24 Wretched

man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? 25 Thanks be to

God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my

mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.

1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For

the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and

of death. 3 For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God

did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin,

He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the requirement of the Law might be

fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

5 For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the

flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For the

mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace,

7 because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject

itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, 8 and those who are in the

flesh cannot please God.

9 However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God

dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong

to Him. 10 If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit

is alive because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from

the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life

to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

Romans 7:14-25, 8:1-11 NASB