15 For what I work, I know not. For what I wish, that I do not practise, but what I hate, that I do.
16 But if I do what I do not wish, I agree with the Torah that it is good.
17 And now, it is no longer I that work it, but the sin dwelling in me.
18 For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, dwells no good. For to wish is present with me, but to work the good I do not find.
19 For the good that I wish to do, I do not do; but the evil I do not wish to do, this I practise.
20 And if I do that which I do not wish, it is no longer I who work it, but the sin dwelling in me.
21 I find therefore this law, that when I wish to do the good, that the evil is present with me.