Twentieth_Century(i)
15 I do not understand my own actions. For I am so far from habitually doing what I want to do, that I find myself doing the very thing that I hate.
16 But when I do what I want not to do, I am admitting that the Law is right.
17 This being so, the action is no longer my own, but that of Sin which is within me.
18 I know that there is nothing good in me-I mean in my earthly nature. For, although it is easy for me to want to do right, to act rightly is not easy.
19 I fail to do the good thing that I want to do, but the bad thing that I want not to do-that I habitually do.
20 But, when I do the very thing that I want not to do, the action is no longer my own, but that of Sin which is within me.
21 This, then, is the law that I find-When I want to do right, wrong presents itself!
22 At heart I delight in the Law of God;
23 But throughout my body I see a different law, one which is in conflict with the law accepted by my reason, and which endeavors to make me a prisoner to that law of Sin which exists throughout my body.
24 Miserable man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body that is bringing me to this Death?