13 Now, did something good cause my death? That’s unthinkable! Rather, my death was caused by sin so that sin would be recognized for what it is. Through a commandment sin became more sinful than ever.
14 I know that God’s standards in Moses’ Teachings are spiritual, but I have a corrupt nature, sold as a slave to sin.
15 I don’t realize what I’m doing. I don’t do what I want to do. Instead, I do what I hate.
16 I don’t do what I want to do, but I agree that God’s standards are good.
17 So I am no longer the one who is doing the things I hate, but sin that lives in me is doing them.
18 I know that nothing good lives in me; that is, nothing good lives in my corrupt nature. Although I have the desire to do what is right, I don’t do it.
19 I don’t do the good I want to do. Instead, I do the evil that I don’t want to do.