Another Day

Same battle.

  We know that the law is spiritual; 

but I am unspiritual, 

sold as a slave to sin. 

I do not understand what I do. 

For what I want to do 
 I do not do, 

but what I hate
I do.

As it is, 
it is no longer I myself who do it,

but it is sin living in me. 

For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, 

that is, 
in my sinful nature. 

For I have the desire to do what is good, 

but I cannot carry it out.  

 For I do not do the good I want to do, 

but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.

  Now if I do what I do not want to do, 

it is no longer I who do it, 

but it is sin living in me that does it. 

I see another law at work in me, 

waging war against the law of my mind 

and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 

O, What a wretched man I am!

Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 

Thanks be to God, 

who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!

Romans 7:14-25