Struggling with Sin

~ This post is not listed in chronological order ~

Romans 7:14-25

  1. So the trouble is not with the law, for it is spiritual. The trouble is with me, for I am merely human flesh – carnal and enslaved to sin.
  2. I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate.
  3. I agree that God’s standards, as written in the law are good, and they teach me what I am doing is wrong.
  4. But I am not really the one doing these things I hate, but sin that lives in me is doing them.
  5. For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but I cannot do it.
  6. Instead of doing what I know is right, I do what I know is wrong.
  7. And when I do wrong, I am no longer in control, but sin within me – enslaves me.
  8. I have discovered this principle of life – that when I want to do what is right, evil is present with me.
  9. For I delight in the law of God and take pleasure in his standards.
  10. But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power enslaves me to sin that is still within me.
  11. What a wretched man I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?
  12. Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my human body I serve the law of sin.

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