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I do not understand my own actions .
For I do not do what I want ,
but I do the very thing I hate .
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Now if I do what I do not want ,
I agree that the law is good .
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So then it is no longer I that do it ,
but sin which dwells within me .
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For I know that nothing good dwells within me ,
that is ,
in my flesh .
I can will what is right ,
but I cannot do it .
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For I do not do the good I want ,
but the evil I do not want is what I do .
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Now if I do what I do not want ,
it is no longer I that do it ,
but sin which dwells within me .
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So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right ,
evil lies close at hand .
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For I delight in the law of God ,
in my inmost self ,
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but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members .
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Wretched man that I am !
Who will deliver me from this body of death ?