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verses 13 through 8:4:
13 Has that which
is good then become death to me? Never may it be! But in order that sin might be shown to be sin, it is working out death through that which
is good to me, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful beyond excess.
14 For we know that
the Law is spiritual; but I am fleshly, having been sold under sin.
15 For what I do, I do not understand. For what I want, this I do not do; but what I hate, this I do.
16 Now if that which I do not want, this I do, I consent to the Law, that
it is good.
17 And in that case I am no longer doing it, but the sin dwelling in me.
18 For I know that there dwells in me nothing good, that is, in my flesh. For to will is present with me, but not to do good.
19 For
the good that I desire, I do not do; but
the evil that I do not want, this I practice.
20 Now if what I do not want, I do this,
it is no longer I who do it, but sin dwelling in me.
21 So I find the principle in my desiring to do good, that evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the Law of God according to the inward man;
23 but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin being in my members.
24 O wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of this body of death?
25 Thanks
be then to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself indeed with
my mind serve God’s Law; but
with the flesh,
the Law of sin.
8:
1 Therefore
there is now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus.
2 For
the Law of the Spirit of LIFE has set you free
IN Christ Jesus from the Law of sin and death.
3 For of the Law
being powerless in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent His Son in likeness of sin of flesh and for sin,
condemned sin in the flesh,
4 so that the righteousness OF the Law should be fulfilled
IN us [note:
not BY us] not walking according to
the flesh, but according to
the Spirit.