Prisoner Of Sin

Now if I do 

    what I do not want to do, 

it is no longer I who do it, 

    but it is sin living in me 

        that does it.

So I find this law at work: 

Although I want to do good, 

    evil is right there with me.

For in my inner being 

    I delight in God’s law;

but I see another law 

    at work in me, 

waging war against 

    the law of my mind and 

making me a prisoner 

    of the law of sin at work 

        within me.

What a wretched person I am! 

Who will rescue me from this body 

    that is subject to death?

Thanks be to God, 

    who delivers me through 

        Jesus Christ our Lord!

                                   ~ Romans 7:20-25