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For we know that the Law is ^(C1)spiritual, but I am ^(C1)fleshly, ^(C2)sold ^(F1)(C3)into bondage to sin.

For ^(C1)I do not understand what I am doing; for I am not practicing ^(C2)what I want to do, but I do the very thing I hate.

However, if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with ^(C1)the Law, that the Law is good.

But now, ^(C1)no longer am I the one doing it, but sin that dwells in me.

For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my ^(C1)flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.

For ^(C1)the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.

But if I do the very thing I do not want, ^(C1)I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that dwells in me.

I find then ^(C1)the ^(F1)principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.

For I joyfully agree with the law of God ^(F1)in ^(C1)the inner person,

but I see ^(C1)a different law in ^(F1)the parts of my body waging war against the ^(C2)law of my mind, and making me a prisoner ^(F2)of ^(C3)the law of sin, the law which is in ^(F3)my body's parts.

Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from ^(F1)(C1)the body of this ^(C2)death?

^(C1)Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh ^(C2)the law of sin.