^{18 Ref} 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.

^{19 Ref} For the good which I have a mind to do, I do not: but the evil which I have no mind to do, that I do.

^{20 Ref} 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.

^{21 Ref} So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me.