8 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. ^qFor apart from the law, sin lies dead.

10 The very commandment ^rthat promised life proved to be death to me.

13 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.

17 So now ^uit is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that ^vnothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.

20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.