18 I know that my selfish desires won't let me do anything that is good. Even when I want to do right, I cannot.
19 Instead of doing what I know is right, I do wrong.
20 And so, if I don't do what I know is right, I am no longer the one doing these evil things. The sin that lives in me is what does them.
21 The Law has shown me that something in me keeps me from doing what I know is right.
22 With my whole heart I agree with the Law of God.
23 But in every part of me I discover something fighting against my mind, and it makes me a prisoner of sin that controls everything I do.
24 What a miserable person I am. Who will rescue me from this body that is doomed to die?