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Thanks and praise be to God who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, to summarise the conflict: I myself with my mind am serving and submitting to God's law, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. Notes 7 Quoted from Ex. 20:17; Deut. 5:21

For I know from experience that nothing good dwells in me—that is, in my flesh, my fallen human nature; for the desire and will to do good is present within me, but the ability to work out the good is not.

For I do not do the good that I want to do, but the evil that I do not want to do, this I keep on practising.

Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I that is working it out, but the sin principle that dwells within me.

So I discover this operative principle: that when I want to do good, evil is present right there with me. For I take pleasure in the law of God according to my inner man.

But if I do what I do not want to do, I am agreeing with the Law that it is good and right in its demands.