¹⁷ So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

²⁰ But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

⁷ "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, Whose sins are covered.

⁸ Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin."

¹⁸ For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

⁸ Yes most assuredly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

⁹ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

⁵ Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?

⁶ But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

²³ but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

¹² For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don't have.