Romans 07:7–25

• A 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
  • B 8a But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence.
    • C 8b–9a For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once:
      • D 9b but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
        • E 10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
      • D' 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
    • C' 12–13a Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid.
  • B' 13b But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
• A' 14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

Part II — The Internal Conflict (vv. 15–20)

• A 15a For that which I do I allow not:
  • B 15b for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
    • C 16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
    • C' 17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
  • B' 18a–18b For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
• A' 19–20 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

Part III — Two Competing Laws (vv. 21–25)

• A 21–23 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
  • B 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
  • B' 25a I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• A' 25b So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.