7What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not. Yet I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known desire if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."8But sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.9I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived.10And I died, and the very commandment that was toward life was found by me to be toward death.11For sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.12So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.13Did that which is good become death to me? Certainly not. Rather, sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin, worked death in me through the good, so that sin might become sinful beyond measure through the commandment.14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.15For what I work, I do not know. For what I will, this I do not practice, but what I hate, this I do.16Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good.17So now it is no longer I who work it, but the sin dwelling in me.18For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do good is present with me, but the ability to carry it out is not.19For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.20Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.21I find therefore the law, that when I will to do the good, the evil lies present to me.22For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and taking me captive in the law of sin that is in my members.24Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, I myself with the mind serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.