Apostol § 95

Romans 7:14–8:2

Brethren, we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. I do not understand that which I do. For I do not do what I want; but I do the very thing that I hate. If, then, I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good. But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, within my flesh; for I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good that I want; but the evil which I do not want, is what I do. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. I find then to be a law, that evil is present with me, whenever I want to do good. For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self, but I see in my members another law, warring with the law of my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this body of death? I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh [I serve] the law of sin… There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk after the flesh, but after the Spirit… For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death…