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For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.
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If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
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But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
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For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.
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For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.
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Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
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I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good.
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For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.
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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.
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O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
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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.