Romans 7:14-20

Christian Standard Bible

The Problem of Sin in Us

¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual,^(A) but I am of the flesh,^[a] sold^(B) as a slave under sin.^{(C) 15} For I do not understand what I am doing,^(D) because I do not practice what I want to do,^(E) but I do what I hate. ¹⁶ Now if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good. ¹⁷ So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is sin living in me. ¹⁸ For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh.^(F) For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it. ¹⁹ For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do. ²⁰ Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one that does it, but it is the sin that lives in me.