Romans 7:18-25 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh, for the desire to do good is present in my heart, but the ability to carry it out consistently is not.

AUV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁸ For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh, for the desire to do good is present in my heart, but the ability to carry it out [consistently] is not. ¹⁹ For I do not do the good [things] I want to, but I practice the evil [things] I do not want to. ²⁰ But if I do what I do not want to, [then] I am no longer the one doing it, but [instead], it is sin which lives in me [i.e., that motivates such conduct]. ²¹ So, I find this principle [at work]: [Although] I want to do what is good, evil is [always] present [and often wins out]. ²² For in my heart I am delighted with God’s law, ²³ but I see a different law [at work] in my body, waging [spiritual] warfare against the law in my mind. It brings me into captivity to the law of sin in my body. ²⁴ What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body doomed to [spiritual] death? ²⁵ Thank God [that I can be rescued] through [the power of] Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, I personally [try to] serve God’s law with my mind, but [all too often] I serve the law of sin with my flesh [i.e., submitting in weakness to my human desires].