15 I don’t know what I’m doing, because I don’t do what I want to do. Instead, I do the thing that I hate.
16 But if I’m doing the thing that I don’t want to do, I’m agreeing that the Law is right.
17 But now I’m not the one doing it anymore. Instead, it’s sin that lives in me.
18 I know that good doesn’t live in me—that is, in my body. The desire to do good is inside of me, but I can’t do it.
19 I don’t do the good that I want to do, but I do the evil that I don’t want to do.
20 But if I do the very thing that I don’t want to do, then I’m not the one doing it anymore. Instead, it is sin that lives in me that is doing it.
21 So I find that, as a rule, when I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me.