¹⁷ So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.

²⁰ But if I do what I have no mind to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.

⁷ Happy are those who have forgiveness for their wrongdoing, and whose sins are covered.

⁸ Happy is the man against whom no sin is recorded by the Lord.

¹⁸ For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.

⁸ Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,

⁹ And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

⁵ Or does it seem to you that it is for nothing that the holy Writings say, The spirit which God put into our hearts has a strong desire for us?

⁶ But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him.

²³ But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.

¹² For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.