^{14 Ref} For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

^{15 Ref} For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

^{16 Ref} If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

^{17 Ref} Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

^{18 Ref} For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

^{19 Ref} For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

^{20 Ref} Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

^{21 Ref} I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

^{22 Ref} For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

^{23 Ref} 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 Ref} O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

^{25 Ref} 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.