19 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.(A) 20 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.(B)

21 So I find this law at work:(C) Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being(D) I delight in God’s law;(E) 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war(F) against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin(G) at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?(H) 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!(I)

So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law,(J) but in my sinful nature[a] a slave to the law of sin.(K)